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Lina Wahlgren¹, Peter Schantz

¹The Research Unit for Movement, Health and Environment, The Åstrand Laboratory, GIH - The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden.

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Area of Science:

Urban planning and public health
Environmental psychology
Transportation science

Background:

Active commuting positively influences public health.
The Active Commuting Route Environment Scale (ACRES) assesses perceptions of active commuters' route environments.
Bicycle commuters are a small, hard-to-study population group.

Purpose of the Study:

To expand knowledge on the criterion-related validity and representativity of the ACRES using an advertisement-recruited sample.
To compare commuting route environment profiles of inner urban and suburban areas.
To provide a basis for understanding the relationship between environment and bikeability.

Main Methods:

Advertisement- and street-recruited bicycle commuters (n=1379 and n=93) in Stockholm responded to the ACRES.
Traffic planning and environmental experts (n=24) responded to a modified ACRES.
Criterion-related validity was assessed by comparing perceived differences with objective measurements and expert ratings.
Representativity was assessed by comparing advertisement- and street-recruited participants' ratings.

Main Results:

Advertisement-recruited participants' perceptions aligned with objective measurements and expert ratings.
Advertisement- and street-recruited participants showed good correspondence in their ratings.
Distinct differences in route environment profiles were found between inner urban and suburban areas.
Suburban routes were perceived as safer and more stimulating for cycling than inner urban routes.
Findings were consistent for both men and women.

Conclusions:

The ACRES demonstrates considerable criterion-related validity.
Advertisement-recruited participants' ratings mirrored those of street-recruited participants.
Suburban commuting routes offer higher bikeability than inner urban routes.