Effect of Traffic Separation and Nature Integration on Affect and Cerebral Oxygenation During Active Transport: An Immersive Virtual Reality and Multi-Study Design

This programmatic registered report received In-Principle Acceptance (IPA) on 4 February 2026 from Peer Community in Registered Reports: https://rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegisteredReports/articles/rec?id=1090&printable=True 

This new version includes:

• The inclusion of the Ethics Committee's approval for our  Stage 1 Programmatic Registered Report (page 2, line 18)

See the previous versions for the following files, which remain unchanged:

• Response to reviewers letter (PEAT_RR_Stage1_Revision_Round2_Response_Letter.pdf) (v4)
• Python script for the visual properties of the virtual environments (PEAT_Pilot_visual_properties.zip) (v3)
• Revised Stage 1 supplementary materials (Supplementary_material_PEAT_v2.docx) (v3)
• Revised R script for power analysis and randomisation sequence (Power_analysis_PEAT_v2.html, PEAT_Randomisation-process_v2.html) (v3)
• Raw pilot data related to self-reported questionnaires, fNIRS data (.snirf), BIOPAC data (electrocargiogram, respiratory rate, heart rate, heart rate variability) (PEAT_Pilot_data.zip) (v3)