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Table 5 Characteristics of shortest cycling routes compared to characteristics of actual cycling routes

From: Children’s route choice during active transportation to school: difference between shortest and actual route

 

Mean and ± SD or Median and interquartile range (25–75)

95 % confidence interval

 

Shortest GIS-route

Actual GPS-route

OR

Lower

Upper

Length of route (meter)

675.6

(498.8–965.3)

673.9

(459.4–1008.3)

1.00

1.00

1.00

Land-use

       

Entropy

0.49

(0.33–0.69)

0.51

(0.35–0.67)

3.82

0.43

33.67

Commercial area (%)

0.00

(0.0–0.0)

0.00

(0.0–0.1)

0.88

0.71

1.09

Residential area (%)

86.5

(73.3–91.9)

84.0

(75.5–91.4)

0.98

0.94

1.02

Recreational area (%)

9.8

(2.0–20.2)

11.9

(5.5–19.2)

1.06

1.01

1.11

Traffic area (%)

2.0

(0.0–8.7)

1.4

(0.0–6.9)

0.90

0.82

1.00

Residents (n per km)

65.4

(45.0–84.8)

63.1

(46.5–80.7

1.00

0.98

1.01

Aesthetics

       

% Green along route

49.9

(34.0–71.5)

55.7

(32.5–72.4)

1.00

0.99

1.02

% Water along route

37.7

(10.2–61.3)

44.6

(15.4–68.5)

1.03

1.01

1.05

Trees (n per km)

145.6

(102.9–174.2)

140.7

(103.5–167.8)

0.99

0.97

1.00

Traffic

       

Traffic lights (n per km)

0.00

(0.0–0.0)

0.00

(0.0–0.0)

1.29

1.04

1.58

Street lights (n per km)

67.7

±21.6

62.3

±21.0

0.95

0.93

0.98

Street bumps (n per km)

3.7

(1.5–9.8)

3.4

(0.8–8.3)

0.96

0.89

1.05

Accidents (n per km)

1.8

(0.0–3.6)

1.1

(0.0–2.9)

0.57

0.43

0.76

Zebra crossings (n per km)

1.6

(0.0–2.3)

0.8

(0.0–2.3)

0.56

0.39

0.81

Junctions (n per km)

33.2

±13.4

35.3

±12.8

1.03

1.01

1.06

% Sidewalk along route

98.7

(83.0–99.9)

93.2

(78.1–100.0)

0.96

0.93

0.99

Type of Street

       

Main Road (%)

3.4

(0.0–17.0)

7.9

(0.0–14.5)

0.99

0.95

1.02

Residential Street (%)

40.8

±16.5

43.9

±15.2

1.03

1.01

1.06

Cycling path (%)

22.3

(6.0–34.4)

24.1

(11.5–35.9)

1.01

0.98

1.04

Pedestrian path (%)

22.8

(14.7–35.1)

22.0

(15.7–28.8)

0.95

0.92

0.98

  1. SD = standard deviation, OR = odds ratio, p-values below 0.05 are printed in bold type