Browsing by Author "Guo, Tian"

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    Community Service Area 4: A Healthier Future
    (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2011-05-25) Bailey, Danielle; Caskey, Kathryn; Guo, Tian
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    Differentiating Commuters on Perceived Bike Safety & Transportation Attributes
    (University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2013) Guo, Tian; Courtney, Arielle; Schneider, Ingrid E.
    Active transportation is beneficial for both human health & the environment. Biking is positioned to become a major form of active transportation given existing recreational use. Biking for outdoor recreation increased 63% from 1983 to 2009. Still, fewer than 1% of workers bike commuted (U.S. American Community Survey, 2009).
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    Measurement properties and invariance of negotiation with outdoor recreation constraints -- a cross-culture study between United States and Chinese University students
    (2012-09) Guo, Tian
    Leisure constraints negotiation research investigates the resources, strategies, and processes people use to deal with leisure constraints. This study examined the measurement of negotiation, including its latent structure, measurement invariance, and cross-cultural applicability, using data from US and Chinese university student samples. A modified second-order negotiation measurement model fit the data acceptably and tau-equivalence was found with most negotiation factors, except cognitive strategies. Equal form emerged across the US and the Chinese samples; however, equal indicator loadings were not found across the two groups. Findings and implications are discussed with future studies suggested. Key word: negotiation; cross culture; second-order model; tau-equivalence; measurement invariance
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    Quality of Life: Assessment for Transportation Performance Indicators: Report on Minnesota Resident Questionnaire
    (University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2011) Schneider, Ingrid; Guo, Tian
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    Quality of Life: Assessment for Transportation Performance Measures
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2013-01) Schneider, Ingrid E.; Guo, Tian; Schroeder, Sierra
    Quality of life (QOL) is a commonly used term. Defining QOL, however, is an ongoing challenge that experts often take on with minimal input from citizens. This groundbreaking research sought citizen input on what comprised QOL and what role transportation played in it. Further, this research explored in detail the important factors across the breadth of transportation and how the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) was performing on these important factors. The research encompassed three phases between 2010 and 2011: (1) an extensive literature review on QOL, (2) 24 focus groups that asked Minnesota’s citizens about their QOL, and (3) a mail questionnaire about what matters in quality of life, transportation and their intersection. Eleven related quality of life factors emerged, including transportation: education, employment and finances, environment, housing, family, friends and neighbors, health, local amenities, recreation and entertainment, safety, spirituality/faith/serenity, and transportation. Within transportation, seven important areas were identified that predicted satisfaction with MnDOT services: access, design, environmental issues, maintenance, mobility, safety and transparency. Results reveal that a) QOL is complex and transportation plays an important and consistent role in it across Minnesota; b) transportation is critical to QOL because it connects us to important destinations in aspects that matter most; and c) Minnesotans can readily identify what matters and how the state is performing within the breadth of transportation services.
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    Transportation and Quality of Life: An Annotated Bibliography
    (University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2010) Guo, Tian; Schneider, Ingrid E.
    The University of Minnesota Tourism Center was contracted to complete an annotated bibliography of quality of life and transportation by November 30, 2010. The bibliography is part of a larger study between the Department of Transportation and University Tourism Center that is qualitatively and quantitatively assessing quality of life and transportation perceptions among Minnesota residents.