Walking, trip purpose, and exposure to multiple environments: A case study of older adults in Luxembourg

in Journal of Transport and Health (2019), 13

Purpose: Understanding the geographical and environmental triggers for active transport among older adults is crucial to promote healthy and independent lifestyles. While transportation research has long ... [more ▼]

Purpose: Understanding the geographical and environmental triggers for active transport among older adults is crucial to promote healthy and independent lifestyles. While transportation research has long considered trip purpose as a major determinant of transport mode choices, “place and health” research has paid little attention to it, and even less in connection with environmental determinants. To avoid an oversimplification of how neighborhood built environments influence utilitarian walking, it is critical to account simultaneously for trip purposes, the locations of visited places, and the related exposure to surrounding environments. Methods: Based on a cohort of 471 older adults in Luxembourg, this study examines the influence of trip purposes on utilitarian walking, and the potential interaction effects with characteristics of multiple geographic environments and distance to the place of residence. Information related to demographics, health status, and regularly visited destinations was collected in 2015 and 2016. Associations between trip purpose, environment, distance, and walking were analyzed using multilevel logistic regressions, accounting for demographics, neighborhood self-selection, and health status. Results: After accounting for environmental attributes, distance, and confounding factors, trip purpose remained a strong correlate of walking among older adults. Associations between distance and walking strongly differed by trip purpose (Wald Chi 2 test p < 0.001). Access to amenities, public transport stops, and street connectivity were associated with walking, although no interaction with trip purpose was observed. Conclusion: Trip purposes based on free-time activities–including visits to family and friends, and restaurants and cafés–seem to be less influenced by the barrier effect of distance on walking. While place and health studies increasingly address both the “where” and “when” of travel behaviors, the current study additionally stresses the importance of the trip purpose to emphasize “why” and “for what” people walk. © 2019 [less ▲]

Wall Mitigation Techniques for Indoor Sensing within the Compressive Sensing Framework

in IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Hoboken, NJ, USA, Jun 17-20, 2012. (2012, June)

Walter Herzog, Zeitgemäße Erziehung. Die Konstruktion pädagogischer Wirklichkeit.Weilerswist: Velbrück 2002

in Vierteljahresschrift für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik (2005), 81

Walther Rathenau und die Literatur seiner Zeit. Studien zu Werk und Wirkung

Book published by Königshausen und Neumann (1996)

Walther Rathenau. Der Phänotyp der Moderne. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Studien

Book published by Aisthesis (2009)

Wandel der Infrastrukturen

in Gebhardt, Hans; Glaser, Rüdiger; Lentz, Sebastian (Eds.) Europa- eine Geographie (2012)

This book chapter deals with the challenges of infrastructures in rural areas in Europe.

Der Wandel der jugendpolitischen Agenda und die Konsequenzen für die Konzeption der Lebensphase Jugend. Eine Analyse am Beispiel von Jugendpolitik in Luxemburg

in Heinen, Andreas; Wiezorek, Christine; Willems, Helmut (Eds.) Entgrenzung der Jugend und Verjugendlichung der Gesellschaft. Zur Notwendigkeit einer »Neuvermessung« jugendtheoretischer Positionen (2020)

Der Wandel einer jugendpolitischen Agenda – Konsequenzen für die theoretische Konzeption von Jugend. Eine Analyse am Beispiel von Jugendpolitik und Jugendforschung in Luxemburg

Presentation (2017, September 29)

Wandel und Differenzierung von Kindheit als Re-Institutionalisierung. Eine Analyse der Reformpolitik zur Kleinkindbetreuung in Luxemburg

Doctoral thesis (2012)

The thesis focuses on the Luxembourgian social policy and law with regard to early childhood education and care for the last 25 years. Young children are not yet obligated to attend school. The care and ... [more ▼]

The thesis focuses on the Luxembourgian social policy and law with regard to early childhood education and care for the last 25 years. Young children are not yet obligated to attend school. The care and education of these children takes place in day care centres and in the household of child minders as well as in the private sphere of the parents’ home. Policy shapes the care of young children between parents’ home and day care through law and social rights. Along with that, policy implicitly uses ideas of early childhood and mental constructions of how young children grow up. The re-institutionalisation of early childhood is the central approach to analyse these ideas and constructions. In light of the social, cultural and political developments in Europe, especially concerning transformations of family forms and labour markets as well as welfare state change and restructuring, the mental constructions and ideas of early childhood fundamentally change. They become increasingly embedded in rationales in which the care of young children is oriented towards the labour market and the child care market. The qualitative document analysis examines this nexus with reference to the Luxembourgian social policy and law in three continuous phases. The 1990s are dominated by traditional ideas of ‘the young child in domestic care’ in an intimate relationship with the non-working mother. Around the turn of the century, this idea is overlaid by the idea of ‘the young child of working parents’ who is looked after outside the private sphere. Here, the main political rationales are based, not on the situation of young children, but on the occupational and private circumstances of parents and how to support them by means of child care. In the late 2000s, an entirely new idea of early childhood emerges in social policy and law on young children’s care. For the first time, the law strengthens the independent societal status of children and confers the right of care and education to ‘the legally individualised young child’. Paradoxically, these very different constructions of young children and corresponding ideas of early childhood nowadays pertain simultaneously. Therefore, the diversity and multi-layered nature of ideas shapes the contemporary everyday life of young children in Luxembourg. [less ▲]

Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space

Book published by Art & Industry Biennial Trust (2009)

Contribution: Wondering Through the Chasms of Opportunity: Interstitial Spatial Practices are Colonising the Vacant Territories that Universalism has Left Wide Open SCAPE 2008 was the 5th Christchurch ... [more ▼]

Contribution: Wondering Through the Chasms of Opportunity: Interstitial Spatial Practices are Colonising the Vacant Territories that Universalism has Left Wide Open SCAPE 2008 was the 5th Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public space. SCAPE 2008 brought over 25 artists from 15 countries to Christchurch with almost entirely new works. The exhibition spanned the central city, ventures into a nearby suburb and sees works located in the port of Lyttelton. This catalogue republishes a series of critical texts that reinforce the curatorial theme. It also expands individual artists sections by consciously choosing to commission photography of the artworks in situ, presenting the process and visually tracking the production of the public’s interaction with the artworks. [less ▲]