A growing literature is pointing towards the prevalence of healthy lifestyles, such as adequate walking, in the Central Business District (CBD) of many cities. However, only one study has investigated the presence of walking hotpsots. Using coarsely geocoded, routinely collected survey data from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and a unique ‘overlap of spatial clusters’ approach, we investigated if a) There were patterns of clustering in walking behaviours, b) If these clusters were co-located and therefore associated with various built environment characteristics and c) What the demographic and active transport use profiles of the residents of these clusters were. A hotspot of walking was found in the CBD of the ACT, co-located with hotspots or spatial clusters of dwelling density, public transport frequency and destination accessibility. Residents of the hotspot walked approximately an hour more than the average ACT resident and had significantly higher odds of using active transport to workplaces relative to driving. Odds ratios of walking relative to driving to work were 9.20 (5.97, 14.18) and bicycling were 3.54 (1.87, 6.69) in the walking hotspot compared to non-hotspots. Policies directed towards creating a ‘CBD like’ built environment in various locations of cities or refurbishing and redesigning existing CBDs to make them more liveable helps encourage walking behaviors. In addition coarsely geocoded, freely available routinely collected survey data can be used to investigate relationships that may help drive policy.

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在中央商务区及其周围行走的热点：利用粗糙的地理编码例行收集的数据

越来越多的文献指出，许多城市的中央商务区（CBD）普遍存在健康的生活方式，例如适当的步行。但是，只有一项研究调查了步行热腿的存在。使用从澳大利亚首都领地（ACT）进行的常规地理编码和常规收集的调查数据，以及独特的“空间簇重叠”方法，我们调查了a）步行行为中是否存在聚类模式，b）如果这些聚类是共同的，位置，并因此与各种建筑环境特征相关联； c）这些集群居民的人口统计数据和主动交通使用情况是什么。行走的热点在ACT的CBD被发现，位于同一地点具有居民密度，公共交通频率和目的地可达性的热点或空间集群。与ACT居民相比，热点居民的行走时间大约比普通ACT居民多一个小时，并且相对于驾驶而言，使用主动交通工具上班的几率要高得多。与非热点相比，步行热点中步行相对于上班的几率为9.20（5.97，14.18），而骑自行车的比率为3.54（1.87，6.69）。旨在在城市的各个位置创建“类似于CBD”的建筑环境或翻新和重新设计现有CBD使其更适合居住的政策有助于鼓励步行行为。此外，可以使用粗略的地理编码，免费提供的常规收集的调查数据来调查可能有助于制定政策的关系。