Food Shopping Trip Characteristics Before and After the Light Rail

The Seattle Food Action Plan recommends improving healthy food access via non-auto transportation options, and light rail is a public transportation system recently introduced and currently being invested in and expanded. When studying food access, time is both an area-based measure of proximity and a component of travel cost to the individual, but proximity does not necessarily correspond with individual travel patterns. Studies of community food access or time use have not analyzed individual reported food shopping trip characteristics for relationships between time and transportation mode, route, and store type.

The overall aim of this study was to understand whether food shopping trips differ with respect to time and mode, and the effects on these travel factors of new light rail implementation as an environmental intervention on travel behaviors.

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Project Type(s): Master's Thesis

Author(s): Jessica Jew

Program(s): Master of Public Health, RDN Training

Year: 2016