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This study quantifies self-reported walking for transportation in Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires, separating walking-only trips from walking events included in other travel modes. Walking-only accounts for ~30% of trips and increases daily walking time by 73% to 217% when all walking events are counted; 19% to 25% meet WHO guidelines.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \n1 Walking for transportation in large Latin American cities: Walking-only trips and total  \n2 walking events and their sociodemographic correlates.  \n3 Abstract  \n4 Walking for transportation is a common and accessible means of achieving recommended  \n5 physical activity levels, while providing important social and environmental co-benefits. Even  \n6 though walking in rapidly growing urban areas has become especially challenging given the  \n7 increasing dependence on motorized transportation, walking remains a major mode of  \n8 transportation in Latin American cities. In this paper we aimed to quantify self-reported walking  \n9 for transportation in Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires, by  \n10 identifying both walking trips that are conducted entirely on foot and walking events involved 11 in trips mainly conducted on other means of transportation (e.g., private vehicle, public transit)  \n12 among individuals 􀁴5-years old. We show how walking-only trips account for approximately 30%  \n13 trips in the analysed cities, and we evidence how the pedestrian dimension of mobility is largely  \n14 underestimated if walking that is incidental to other transportation modes is not accounted for:  \n15 when considering all walking events, we observed an increase between 73% and 217% in daily  \n16 walking time. As a result, we estimated that between 19% and 25% of residents in these cities  \n17 meet the WHO physical activity guidelines solely from walking for transportation. The results of  \n18 the study also suggest that the promotion of public transportation in large Latin American cities  \n19 can especially help certain population groups achieve the daily recommended levels of physical  \n20 activity, while among low-income groups accessibility and safety seem to be the key challenges  \n21 to be addressed.  \n22 Keywords  \n23 Mobility; Pedestrian; Physical activity; Active transportation; Travel surveys; Urban areas  \n24 1. Introduction  \n25 Physical inactivity is one of the lead causes for non-communicable diseases world-wide (Lee et 26 al., 2012), and results in considerable economic costs for health care systems (Ding et al., 2016) .  \n27 Globally, 28% of adults aged 18+ is inactive or have sedentary lifestyles (WHO, 2016) . This  \n28 percentage is higher in some Latin American countries such as Brazil (47%), Colombia (44%) and  \n29 Argentina (42%), and is over 80% among children (WHO, 2016) . Daily physical activity (PA)  \n30 among adults is associated with reductions in the risk of health problems including coronary  \n31 heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer, and can also prevent mental health  \n32 problems such as depression (Sun et al., 2013) . Among children, PA is essential to ensure growth  \n33 and an adequate development (Hills et al., 2007) . Consequently, the World Health Organization  \n34 (WHO) recommends moderate-intensity PA for at least 150 minutes per week for adults and 300 35 minutes for children (WHO, 2010) .  \n36 Among the different domains of PA (i.e., leisure and recreation, transportation, home related 37 activities, and work), walking for transportation is a common and accessible means of  \n38 contributing to reaching recommended PA levels (Spinney et al., 2012) . At the same time, 39 walking has also gained relevance in the urban and transportation planning spheres, increasingly  \n40 framed under the scope of environmental and social sustainability (Banister, 2008; Sallis et al.,  \n1 2004) . On the one hand, active transportation modes such as walking or cycling are undoubtedly  \n2 the most efficient means in terms of energy consumption, as well asthe modes of transportation  \n3 that are closer to being emission-free (Duffy & Crawford, 2013) . On the other hand, walking in  \n4 particular also has implications in terms of social equity. Walking can be regarded as the most  \n5 democratic means of transportat","cbCaijE3N63XfgDq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijE3N63XfgDq","pdf",393746,1,22,"English","en",105,"# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# 1. 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