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Record W4416297344 · doi:10.1080/23748834.2025.2578565

The neighbourhood built environment affects driving behaviours of older adults: a combined geographic information systems and machine learning method

2025· article· en· W4416297344 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueCities & Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOlder Adults Driving Studies
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityUniversity of Calgary
FundersNational Institute on AgingNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsBuilt environmentNeighbourhood (mathematics)Geographic information systemLand useGeospatial analysisTRIPS architecturePoison controlSpace (punctuation)Public transport

Abstract

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Driving space is considered as the transaction between built environment features and driving behaviour. Driving keeps people active and engaged, particularly in later life. Using Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and machine learning, this study examined the driving space of older drivers (aged ≥65; n = 134) living in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, USA from 1 January 2019, to 31 December 2019. Driving variables, such as total distance, trip frequency, ratio of short trips long trips, were analyzed. Built environment measures included transit accessibility, land use mix, and road network characteristics. Our findings indicate that the most important features predictive of driving space of older adults were public transit density and land use diversity within residential areas. This study demonstrates the non-linear relationship between built environment factors and driving space variables. Total distance has a complex relationship with each built environment variable. The differences in short-distance and long-distance driving are linked to varied land use types, balanced transport density, and intersection density. These findings highlight the value of using in-vehicle monitoring technologies to determine how specific characteristics of the built environment can influence everyday driving behaviours in later life.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.314 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it