active transportation

This article found that the urban design of a suburban community affects pedestrian use and recommends measures to encourage both infill development and increased pedestrian use. It uses the same study area—8 communities in the south bay area of Los Angeles County—as the article "Can Built and Social Environmental Factors Encourage Walking Among Individuals with Negative Walking Attitudes?" (Joh, et al. 2012).  The layout of the commercial districts varied between what the authors call corridors and “centers.” They found that the center-oriented communities saw much more pedestrian use, and recommended applying some of the centers’ land use patterns to corridors. They also recommended exploring enabling mobility options, such as fast shuttle buses to encourage infill construction around the stops.