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Table 2 GPS route characteristics by usual mode of travel to school

From: How well do modelled routes to school record the environments children are exposed to?: a cross-sectional comparison of GIS-modelled and GPS-measured routes to school

Median (IQR; 25th centile-75th centile)

Total

By car

By bus

By bicycle

On foot

N

1191

262

475

62

392

GPS route length (km)

4.56 (6.78; 1.57 - 8.35)

4.14 (5.98; 2.44 - 8.42)

7.99 (5.27; 6.21 - 11.48)

2.02 (2.90; 1.14 - 4.04)

1.39 (0.93; 0.92 - 1.82)

Percentage of GPS route not on a road

0.31 (4.71; 0–4.71)

0.34 (3.09; 0–3.09)

0.04 (0.65; 0–0.65)

0 (6.25; 0–6.25)

4.82 (10.88; 0–10.88)

Percentage of the GPS route that falls within the 50 m GIS route buffer

54.43 (57.37; 26.47 - 83.84)

57.9 (61.48; 23.28 - 84.76)

52.71 (52.91; 25.09 - 78)

41.42 (57.77; 32.55 - 90.32)

56.33 (61.75; 27.8 - 89.55)