Prof. Bruce Newbold

Recent interest in the urban transport challenges posed by the demographic outlook of ageing societies has prompted a growing body of scholarship on the subject. The focus of this paper is on the topic of elderly trip generation and the development of models to help formalise some important relationships between trip-making behaviour and personal, household and contextual variables (such as location). The case study is the Hamilton Metropolitan Area-an important functional component of Greater Toronto, itself one of the regions in Canada where the impact of ageing is expected to be most strongly felt. Using data from Toronto's Transport Tomorrow Survey and mixed ordered probit models, the study investigates the question of spatial and demographic variability in trip-making behaviour. The results support the proposition that trip-making propensity decreases with age. However, it is also found that this behaviour is not spatially homogeneous and in fact exhibits a large degree of variability-a finding that highlights both the challenges of planning transport for the elderly and the potential of spatial analytical approaches to improve transport modelling practice.

27 January 2012 in Environmental Health

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An ecological quantification of the relationships between water, sanitation and infant, child, and maternal mortality

June J Cheng

Corinne J Schuster-Wallace

Susan Watt

Bruce Newbold

Andrew Mente

Water and sanitation access are known to be related to newborn, child, and maternal health. Our study attempts to quantify these relationships globally using country-level data: How much does improving access to water and sanitation influence infant, child, and maternal mortality?

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Bruce Newbold received his PhD from McMaster in 1994, and has taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and McMaster University, and has held guest scholar positions at UCSD and Glasgow. His research interests include transportation, human mobility, and health.

Prof. Bruce Newbold

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