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Overview

Ron Buliung is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans the social sciences with a particular focus on transportation, sociology and political science, safety, risk, reliability and quality, general health professions, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their main research topics include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport

Ron Buliung has authored notable papers such as:

  • "Measuring accessibility to hospitals by public transport: An assessment of eight Canadian metropolitan regions" (2020, Journal of Transport & Health)
  • "Active school transportation and the built environment across Canadian cities: Findings from the child active transportation safety and the environment (CHASE) study" (2021, Preventive Medicine)
  • "Fear of cycling: Social, spatial, and temporal dimensions" (2020, Journal of Transport Geography)
  • "A scoping review of accessible student transport services for children with disabilities" (2020, Transport Policy)
  • "Vélomobilities of care in a low-cycling city" (2020, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice)

They frequently collaborate with coauthors including:

  • Timothy Ross
  • Linda Rothman
  • Fiona J. Moola
  • Ahmed El-Geneidy
  • Brent Hagel

Ron Buliung often publishes in venues such as:

  • Disability & Society
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Findings
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

Best Publications

  • Active School Transport, Physical Activity Levels and Body Weight of Children and Youth: A Systematic Review

    Guy E. J. Faulkner;Ronald N. Buliung;Parminder K. Flora;Caroline Fusco

  • Active school transportation in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: An exploration of trends in space and time (1986–2006)

    Ron N Buliung;Raktim Mitra;Guy Ej Faulkner

  • GIS measured environmental correlates of active school transport: A systematic review of 14 studies

    Bonny Yee-Man Wong;Guy E. J. Faulkner;Ron Buliung

  • Built environment correlates of active school transportation: neighborhood and the modifiable areal unit problem

    Raktim Mitra;Ron N. Buliung

  • Urban Form and Household Activity‐Travel Behavior

    Ron N. Buliung;Pavlos S. Kanaroglou

  • What's "quickest and easiest?": parental decision making about school trip mode

    Guy E. J. Faulkner;Vanessa Richichi;Ronald N. Buliung;Caroline Fusco

  • The decline in active school transportation (AST): A systematic review of the factors related to AST and changes in school transport over time in North America.

    Linda Rothman;Alison K. Macpherson;Timothy Ross;Ron N. Buliung

  • A GIS toolkit for exploring geographies of household activity/travel behavior

    Ronald N. Buliung;Pavlos S. Kanaroglou

  • Exploring spatial variety in patterns of activity-travel behaviour: initial results from the Toronto Travel-Activity Panel Survey (TTAPS)

    Ron N. Buliung;Matthew J. Roorda;Tarmo K. Remmel

  • Built Environment and School Travel Mode Choice in Toronto, Canada

    Raktim Mitra;Ron N Buliung;Matthew J Roorda

  • Toward an understanding of children's perceptions of their transport geographies: (non)active school travel and visual representations of the built environment

    Caroline Fusco;Fiona Moola;Guy E. J. Faulkner;Ron Buliung

  • Do parental perceptions of the neighbourhood environment influence children’s independent mobility? Evidence from Toronto, Canada:

    Raktim Mitra;Guy Ej Faulkner;Ron N Buliung;Michelle R Stone

  • Walking and child pedestrian injury: a systematic review of built environment correlates of safe walking

    Linda Rothman;Ron Buliung;Colin Macarthur;Colin Macarthur;Teresa To;Teresa To

  • Understanding the drive to escort: a cross-sectional analysis examining parental attitudes towards children's school travel and independent mobility

    George Mammen;Guy E. J. Faulkner;Ron Buliung;Jennifer Lay

  • Exploring differences in school travel mode choice behaviour between children and youth

    Raktim Mitra;Ron N. Buliung

  • School Travel Planning: Mobilizing School and Community Resources to Encourage Active School Transportation

    Ron Buliung;Guy E. J. Faulkner;Theresa Beesley;Jacky Kennedy

  • Disability and food access and insecurity: A scoping review of the literature.

    Naomi Schwartz;Ron Buliung;Kathi Wilson

  • Catching a ride on the information super-highway: toward an understanding of internet-based carpool formation and use

    Ron N. Buliung;Kalina Soltys;Randy Bui;Catherine Habel

  • Commute minimization in the Greater Toronto Area: applying a modified excess commute

    Ronald N. Buliung;Pavlos S. Kanaroglou

  • The freedom to explore: examining the influence of independent mobility on weekday, weekend and after-school physical activity behaviour in children living in urban and inner-suburban neighbourhoods of varying socioeconomic status

    Michelle R Stone;Guy Ej Faulkner;Raktim Mitra;Ron N Buliung

  • Activity-Travel Behaviour Research: Conceptual Issues, State of the Art, and Emerging Perspectives on Behavioural Analysis and Simulation Modelling

    Ron N. Buliung;Pavlos S. Kanaroglou

  • Title: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND SCHOOL TRAVEL MODE CHOICE IN TORONTO, CANADA

    Raktim Mitra;Ron N. Buliung;Matthew J. Roorda

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Faulkner
Guy Faulkner University of British Columbia
Andrew W. Howard
Andrew W. Howard California Institute of Technology
Antonio Páez
Antonio Páez McMaster University
Brent Edward Hagel
Brent Edward Hagel University of Calgary
Gavin R. McCormack
Gavin R. McCormack University of Calgary
Jennifer S. Mindell
Jennifer S. Mindell University College London
Valerie Tarasuk
Valerie Tarasuk University of Toronto
Yan Kestens
Yan Kestens University of Montreal

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