Monitoring Daily Activities and Linking Physical Activity Levels Attributed to Transportation Mobility Choices and Built Environ

Physical activities become an important part of human lives for healthy living, as many health benefits from active transportation (i.e., walking and biking) were shown in previous studies including reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancers. The health benefit of the active transportation comes from participants’ physical activities; however, there has been very limited effort in analyzing and quantifying participants’ actual physical activities. Instead, transportation studies mainly focused on trip attributes, built environment and natural environment as contributing factors in choosing transportation options. This study proposes to identify and categorize health outcomes impacted by daily physical activity and quantify the amount of physical activities by different transportation mode users in different areas associated with their daily travel activities. By employing recent wearable devices with sensing and GPS tracking technology, the amount of physical and cardiovascular activities will be quantified by travel activities and transportation mode used.  In addition, this study will explore associations between transportation activity and health benefits by looking into various health related measures using observed and perceived measures. This study is expected to fill the gap in the literature by examining how physical health related measures are possibly affecting individual mode choice.