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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1499197

Assessing the correlation between park view elements and exercise physiological indicators of walkers, joggers, and runners: A case study of Century Park in Shanghai

Provisionally accepted
Nan Wang Nan Wang 1Weixuan Wei Weixuan Wei 2,3*Yuhui Qian Yuhui Qian 1Hang Gao Hang Gao 1Han Qiu Han Qiu 2,4
  • 1 School of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
  • 2 School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
  • 3 Shanghai Weilaichengshi Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
  • 4 Southwest Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute of China, Chengdu, China

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    Objective: To explore the correlation between park view elements and their combinations on the heart rate (HR) and speed of walkers, joggers, and runners in different groups of people’s profiles and walking types, provide suggestions for the planning and design of walking suitability of walking trails in parks, and guide people with different walking needs to scientifically choose walking trails in parks. Methods: Profile data and exercise data of users who recorded walking activities in Century Park are collected on Strava, and the park view images (PVIs) were taken and segmented semantically. Data are grouped according to gender, age, weight and exercise type, and the quantitative relationship between HR, speed and 17 park view elements is studied by Spearman correlation analysis. Results: (1) The influence of the same park view elements on the exercise physiological indicators of different genders is small; (2) Park view elements combination based on sky, grass-plant and tree can better stabilize the walking HR of the elderly; (3) Semi-enclosed trail dominated by tree can improve the walking HR and speed of people with larger body weight; (4) Natural routes dominated by sidewalk-path and supplemented by tree and sky elements are more suitable for walking, while the trails with larger sky area, no trees and wider trails are more suitable for running.

    Keywords: park view element, Strava Data, exercise physiological indicator, walkers, joggers, and runners, century park

    Received: 20 Sep 2024; Accepted: 25 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wang, Wei, Qian, Gao and Qiu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Weixuan Wei, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, Shanghai Municipality, China

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