Two key goals for sustainable spatial planning are to promote low-carbon travel in daily life and to enhance human wellbeing through diverse human-environment interactions.Yet,the integration of these goals has been u...Two key goals for sustainable spatial planning are to promote low-carbon travel in daily life and to enhance human wellbeing through diverse human-environment interactions.Yet,the integration of these goals has been underexplored.This study investigates the potential for experiential diversity via active travel in different resi-dential contexts within the Gävle city-region,Sweden.Over 15 months,we collected spatiotemporal data from 165 participants,analyzing 4,362 reported experiences and 13,192 GPS-derived travel trajectories.Our analysis uncovered a significant spatial discrepancy:while the travelled distances to locations of positive experiences typ-ically ranged from 1.5 km to 5 km,active travel predominated only within 1.5 km.This discrepancy persisted across urban,suburban,and peripheral contexts.Although residents in different contexts reported the same types of experiences,urban dwellers travelled about 50%farther for nature experiences compared with other positive experiences,whereas peripheral dwellers travelled twice the distance for urbanicity experiences compared with other positive experiences.Consequently,urban residents mostly relied on active travel for urbanicity experiences and motorised travel for nature experiences,with the reverse trend observed among peripheral dwellers.These results illustrate the importance of spatial scale for promoting diverse positive experiences via active travel,re-gardless of residential context.Effective planning strategies may include enhancing environmental diversity near homes and developing infrastructure that favours active over motorised travel for short to moderate distances.展开更多
基金supported by funding provided by University of Gävle and Vinnova through the GeoLife Region project coordinated by Future Position X[2019-05068]K.S.was supported by a grant from Forte[2022-00841]+3 种基金S.B.was supported by a joint grant from Mistra[DIA 2019/28]Formas via the national research programme on cli-mate[2021-00416]called FAIRTRANSWe acknowledge support from the project Cycle4Climate(Grant No.CB0300173)funded by Interreg Europe’s Central Baltic programme,that inspired and enriched this paper.
文摘Two key goals for sustainable spatial planning are to promote low-carbon travel in daily life and to enhance human wellbeing through diverse human-environment interactions.Yet,the integration of these goals has been underexplored.This study investigates the potential for experiential diversity via active travel in different resi-dential contexts within the Gävle city-region,Sweden.Over 15 months,we collected spatiotemporal data from 165 participants,analyzing 4,362 reported experiences and 13,192 GPS-derived travel trajectories.Our analysis uncovered a significant spatial discrepancy:while the travelled distances to locations of positive experiences typ-ically ranged from 1.5 km to 5 km,active travel predominated only within 1.5 km.This discrepancy persisted across urban,suburban,and peripheral contexts.Although residents in different contexts reported the same types of experiences,urban dwellers travelled about 50%farther for nature experiences compared with other positive experiences,whereas peripheral dwellers travelled twice the distance for urbanicity experiences compared with other positive experiences.Consequently,urban residents mostly relied on active travel for urbanicity experiences and motorised travel for nature experiences,with the reverse trend observed among peripheral dwellers.These results illustrate the importance of spatial scale for promoting diverse positive experiences via active travel,re-gardless of residential context.Effective planning strategies may include enhancing environmental diversity near homes and developing infrastructure that favours active over motorised travel for short to moderate distances.
