The findings of this study provide some evidence that improving public transport access in areas has the potential to increase the
amount of walking people undertake, however we did not find evidence for an association with obesity or metabolic syndrome and
diabetes/IGR. There is a need to strengthen the relevant evidence by: conducting longitudinal studies where people change residential
environments; further improve measurements of public transport accessibility including access to destinations (e.g. place of work);
measure transport-specific walking in particular locales; and collect more details about why people choose to live in different places to
control for confounding due to self-selection into neighbourhoods.