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Tayebeh Saghapour
Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia

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Journal article
Published: 21 July 2021 in Health & Place
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Although pandemics are rare, planning and preparation for responding to them plays a crucial role in preventing their spread. The management and control of pandemics such as COVID-19 relies heavily on a country's health capacity. Measuring vulnerability to pandemics in geographical areas could potentially delay a pandemic's exponential growth and reduce the number of cases, which would alleviate the disease impact on communities and the health care sector. The aim of this study is to generate an area-level COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index (CPVI) and to assess its correlation with COVID-19 cases. Data were collected for Local Government Areas (LGAs) across Australia from different sources including Australia Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and General Transit Feed Specification. Based on recent official reports about the COVID-19 outbreak, 18 factors were identified as influencing vulnerability to the disease within LGAs. Using factor analysis, four latent factors were identified and named as sociodemographic, medical conditions, transportation, and land use. Predicted factor scores were summed to generate a CPVI for each LGA. The CPVI was evaluated by correlating with confirmed cases of COVID-19 standardised by adult population in New South Wales and Victoria, the two Australian states with the highest numbers of confirmed cases. There was a statistically significant correlation between the CPVI and COVID-19 in New South Wales (r = 0.49) and Victoria (r = 0.48). LGAs scoring higher on the CPVI also had a higher absolute number of cases. The CPVI could be used by policymakers to identify at-risk areas and to develop preparedness and response plans to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and future pandemics.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Billie Giles-Corti; Afshin Jafari; Muhammad Arif Qaisrani; Gavin Turrell. Supporting pandemic disease preparedness: Development of a composite index of area vulnerability. Health & Place 2021, 70, 102629 -102629.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Billie Giles-Corti, Afshin Jafari, Muhammad Arif Qaisrani, Gavin Turrell. Supporting pandemic disease preparedness: Development of a composite index of area vulnerability. Health & Place. 2021; 70 ():102629-102629.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Billie Giles-Corti; Afshin Jafari; Muhammad Arif Qaisrani; Gavin Turrell. 2021. "Supporting pandemic disease preparedness: Development of a composite index of area vulnerability." Health & Place 70, no. : 102629-102629.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The elderly population is increasing rapidly. Understanding travel behaviour for this group of commuters (in terms of the trip purpose and travel time) is necessary for future transport planning. Many researchers are working on travel’s spatial and temporal analysis to provide operational decision making and transport network planning. This research study’s primary purpose is to identify the influence of trip duration (using public transport), time of the day (usage of public transport), and public transport (PT) accessibility over public transport mode preference by elderly (over 65 years of age) commuters. The methodology of this study is divided into two parts as spatial analysis and temporal analysis. The research identified the dependency of trip duration, time of the day, geographical areas, and PT access over transport mode preference of elderly. The temporal study shows that transport mode preference can vary depending on trip purposes. However, for specific trip durations and times of the day, the elderly sometimes choose PT as a mobility mode. For instance, on shopping trips between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., the elderly have a greater possibility of choosing public transport over private vehicles. Moreover, the results show the public transport mode preference based on different times of the day and trip purposes. Urban and transport planner can use the results to modify/plan public transport schedule, which can be easily accessible by the elderly population.

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Kaniz Fatima; Sara Moridpour; Tayebeh Saghapour. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Elderly Public Transport Mode Preference. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4752 .

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Kaniz Fatima, Sara Moridpour, Tayebeh Saghapour. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Elderly Public Transport Mode Preference. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4752.

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Kaniz Fatima; Sara Moridpour; Tayebeh Saghapour. 2021. "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Elderly Public Transport Mode Preference." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4752.

Journal article
Published: 04 March 2021 in Preventive Medicine
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We investigate the prospective association between neighbourhood-level disadvantage and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among mid-to-older aged adults and whether physical activity (PA) mediates this association. The data come from the HABITAT project, a multilevel longitudinal investigation of health and wellbeing in Brisbane. The participants were 11,035 residents of 200 neighbourhoods in 2007, with follow-up data collected in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016. Multilevel binomial regression was used for the cross-sectional analysis and mixed-effect parametric survival models were used for the longitudinal analysis. Models were adjusted for age, sex, education, occupation, and household income. Those with pre-existing CVD at baseline were excluded from the longitudinal analyses. The mediated effect of PA on CVD was examined using multilevel generalized structural equation modelling. There was a total of 20,064 person-year observations across the five time-points clustered at three levels. Results indicated that the incidence of CVD was significantly higher in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods (OR 1.50; HR 1.29) compared with the least disadvantaged. Mediation analysis results revealed that 11.5% of the effect of neighbourhood disadvantage on CVD occurs indirectly through PA in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods while the corresponding figure is 5.2% in the more advantaged areas. Key findings showed that neighbourhood disadvantage is associated with the incidence of CVD, and PA is a significant mediator of this relationship. Future research should investigate which specific social and built environment features promote or inhibit PA in disadvantaged areas as the basis for policy initiatives to address inequities in CVD.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Billie Giles-Corti; Jerome Rachele; Gavin Turrell. A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neighbourhood disadvantage and cardiovascular disease and the mediating role of physical activity. Preventive Medicine 2021, 147, 106506 .

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Billie Giles-Corti, Jerome Rachele, Gavin Turrell. A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neighbourhood disadvantage and cardiovascular disease and the mediating role of physical activity. Preventive Medicine. 2021; 147 ():106506.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Billie Giles-Corti; Jerome Rachele; Gavin Turrell. 2021. "A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of neighbourhood disadvantage and cardiovascular disease and the mediating role of physical activity." Preventive Medicine 147, no. : 106506.

Review
Published: 07 September 2020 in Sustainability
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The number of elderly people as a proportion of the world’s population is growing significantly. Special attention to the accessibility and mobility requirements of this group is needed. The contribution of this paper is a review of travel patterns, mode preferences, infrastructure solutions, accessibility indices, mode choice models and datasets as they relate to elderly mobility. Key findings highlight the role of residential location characteristics in shaping elderly travel patterns, helping to explain why research on elderly travel has largely relied on case studies to date. The review also summarizes a range of indices that have been developed to measure public transport and walking accessibility among the elderly, including distance and time-based methods. Future research should consider the dominance of private transport in facilitating elderly mobility and its implications for cities experiencing an aging population.

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Kaniz Fatima; Sara Moridpour; Chris De Gruyter; Tayebeh Saghapour. Elderly Sustainable Mobility: Scientific Paper Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7319 .

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Kaniz Fatima, Sara Moridpour, Chris De Gruyter, Tayebeh Saghapour. Elderly Sustainable Mobility: Scientific Paper Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7319.

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Kaniz Fatima; Sara Moridpour; Chris De Gruyter; Tayebeh Saghapour. 2020. "Elderly Sustainable Mobility: Scientific Paper Review." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7319.

Corrigendum
Published: 30 September 2019 in Journal of Advanced Transportation
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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. Corrigendum to “Modeling Access to Public Transport in Urban Areas”. Journal of Advanced Transportation 2019, 2019, 1 -1.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell Thompson. Corrigendum to “Modeling Access to Public Transport in Urban Areas”. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2019; 2019 ():1-1.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. 2019. "Corrigendum to “Modeling Access to Public Transport in Urban Areas”." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2019, no. : 1-1.

Journal article
Published: 27 December 2018 in Cities
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Household decisions to move from or stay at a current location may be based on a great number of variables. There has been substantial discussion among planners about the effect of the built environment in the choice of residential location. However, there is limited research on the role of non-motorised accessibility on residential location. Households may base their decision to move from or stay at a current location on the neighbourhood's accessibility. The public transport accessibility, walkability and bikeability of a neighbourhood may affect residents' decisions to stay or move from their current location. The focus of this paper is on modelling and comparing the influence of non-motorised accessibility measures on the number of years that households stay at their current location. The paper addresses this issue by employing three non-motorised accessibility measures in separate ordered logistic regression (OLR) models. Focusing on metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA, 2012) was adopted to model years of residency incorporating socio-economic characteristics, built environment features and accessibility measures. Key findings indicate that non-motorised accessibility has statistically-significant impacts on the number of years that residents live at their current address. Furthermore, of the accessibility measures, access to public transport has the greatest impact.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour. The role of neighbourhoods accessibility in residential mobility. Cities 2018, 87, 1 -9.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour. The role of neighbourhoods accessibility in residential mobility. Cities. 2018; 87 ():1-9.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour. 2018. "The role of neighbourhoods accessibility in residential mobility." Cities 87, no. : 1-9.

Articles
Published: 09 November 2018 in Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
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A growing number of recent studies have focused on improving the sustainability of transportation systems by routinely converting motorised travel to walking and conventional bicycling. The importance of physical activity and its impact on health have not only attracted the attention of practitioners, but also turned the attention of planners and policy-makers to the achievement of more sustainable transportation by promoting active travel. In order to identify effective strategies for increasing pedestrian and bicycle transportation in local areas, planners need to identify how current levels of accessibility in neighbourhoods affect walking and cycling trips. Despite a substantial amount of research on modelling active transportation, there have been limited studies on the importance of accessibility in terms of availability of activities and travel distances for pedestrians and cyclists. Hence, this study employs new approaches for measuring cycling and walking accessibility against land use features in separate models to examine how accessibility can affect participation in active transportation. Key findings indicate that more accessible neighbourhoods have more active trips, while models using accessibility measurements show better fit on data. Furthermore, results revealed that one-unit increase in walking and cycling accessibility indexes implies 15% and 19% increase in active trips, respectively. Therefore, the results suggest that awareness of accessibility levels in neighbourhoods of existing and developing areas could provide a better perspective for planners and policy-makers to promote active transportation.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. Sustainable transport in neighbourhoods: effect of accessibility on walking and bicycling. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 2018, 15, 849 -871.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell Thompson. Sustainable transport in neighbourhoods: effect of accessibility on walking and bicycling. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. 2018; 15 (2):849-871.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. 2018. "Sustainable transport in neighbourhoods: effect of accessibility on walking and bicycling." Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 15, no. 2: 849-871.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Cities
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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. Enhancing active transport demand Modelling by incorporating accessibility measures. Cities 2018, 78, 206 -215.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell G. Thompson. Enhancing active transport demand Modelling by incorporating accessibility measures. Cities. 2018; 78 ():206-215.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. 2018. "Enhancing active transport demand Modelling by incorporating accessibility measures." Cities 78, no. : 206-215.

Research article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
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Promoting walking trips is considered a key element of achieving more sustainable transportation. This paper presents a new index for measuring walkability in metropolitan areas. This index measures walkability levels for diversity and intensity of uses in spatial areas while considering the travel distance and time as travel impedance between origins and destinations. A walking access index (WAI), which is a location-based measure for accessibility, is formulated for quantifying accessibility within local areas in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Geographic information system software was employed to compute distances between origins and destinations. The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) was used to evaluate the new index and examine the association between walking trips and levels of accessibility within the metropolitan region of Melbourne. Furthermore, the new index is compared with one of the most common approaches using the VISTA data set. Key findings indicate that the WAI has a stronger association with recorded walking trips, with more walking trips recorded in areas with higher values of the WAI.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. Measuring Walking Accessibility in Metropolitan Areas. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2017, 2661, 111 -119.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell Thompson. Measuring Walking Accessibility in Metropolitan Areas. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2017; 2661 (1):111-119.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. 2017. "Measuring Walking Accessibility in Metropolitan Areas." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2661, no. 1: 111-119.

Article
Published: 21 November 2016 in Journal of Advanced Transportation
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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. Retracted: Modeling access to public transport in urban areas. Journal of Advanced Transportation 2016, 50, 1785 -1801.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell G. Thompson. Retracted: Modeling access to public transport in urban areas. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2016; 50 (8):1785-1801.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. 2016. "Retracted: Modeling access to public transport in urban areas." Journal of Advanced Transportation 50, no. 8: 1785-1801.

Journal article
Published: 04 November 2016 in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
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Different measures of cycling accessibility have been widely introduced in transportation planning. However, those measurements are mainly restricted by the availability of travel behavior data. In addition, there has been limited comprehensive research on the importance of cycling accessibility to destinations based on the travel time or distance. In this paper, a new index for measuring bikeability in metropolitan areas is introduced. A Cycling Accessibility Index (CAI) is developed for quantifying cycling accessibility within local areas in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. CAI is defined according to gravity-based measures of accessibility. This index measures cycling accessibility levels in terms of diversity of different land uses, number of activities in statistical areas, and the travel impedance between origins and destinations. The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) dataset was used to evaluate the index and investigate the association between the cycling accessibility levels and the number of bicycle trips in local areas. The index is assessed by investigating the association between levels of cycling accessibility and the number of bicycle trips in statistical areas. Key findings indicate that there is a significant positive association between bike trips and the CAI.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. Measuring cycling accessibility in metropolitan areas. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2016, 11, 381 -394.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell G. Thompson. Measuring cycling accessibility in metropolitan areas. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 2016; 11 (5):381-394.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell G. Thompson. 2016. "Measuring cycling accessibility in metropolitan areas." International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 11, no. 5: 381-394.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2016 in Journal of Transport Geography
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Improving public transport accessibility can be considered an effective way of reducing the external costs and negative side effects of motorized commuting. Although there have been many studies conducted that have measured access levels to public transport stops/stations, there has been limited research on measuring accessibility that integrates population density within geographical areas. This study develops a new measure that considers public transport service frequency and population density as an important distributional indicator. A public transport accessibility index (PTAI) is formulated for quantifying accessibility within local areas in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. A public transport network model is applied to identify the service coverage of public transport modes using a Geographical Information System (GIS). A consistent method is introduced for evaluating public transport accessibility for different levels of analysis, from single elements, including public mode stops to network analysis. The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) is used to evaluate the index and examine the association between commuting trips undertaken by public transport and the level of accessibility within the Melbourne metropolitan region. Furthermore, the new index is compared with two existing approaches using the VISTA dataset. Key findings indicate that the PTAI had a stronger association whilst showing more use of public transport in areas with higher values of the PTAI.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. Public transport accessibility in metropolitan areas: A new approach incorporating population density. Journal of Transport Geography 2016, 54, 273 -285.

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Tayebeh Saghapour, Sara Moridpour, Russell Thompson. Public transport accessibility in metropolitan areas: A new approach incorporating population density. Journal of Transport Geography. 2016; 54 ():273-285.

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Tayebeh Saghapour; Sara Moridpour; Russell Thompson. 2016. "Public transport accessibility in metropolitan areas: A new approach incorporating population density." Journal of Transport Geography 54, no. : 273-285.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering
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Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering (JTLE)

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Tayebeh A. Saghapour; Sara B. Moridpour; Russell C. Thompson. Built Environment Towards Active Transport and Health Improvements. Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering 2015, 3, 1 .

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Tayebeh A. Saghapour, Sara B. Moridpour, Russell C. Thompson. Built Environment Towards Active Transport and Health Improvements. Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering. 2015; 3 (1):1.

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Tayebeh A. Saghapour; Sara B. Moridpour; Russell C. Thompson. 2015. "Built Environment Towards Active Transport and Health Improvements." Journal of Traffic and Logistics Engineering 3, no. 1: 1.