Improving walkability in a TOD context: Spatial strategies that enhance walking in the Belém neighbourhood, in São Paulo, Brazil

Lamour, Quentin; Morelli, Adriano M.; Marins, Karin Regina de Castro

doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2019.03.005

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“…The use of public transportation contributes to the reductions of greenhouse emissions and traffic congestion; however, many pedestrians using the transit services have to move through unwalkable conditions between their destination and the transit station, and cannot possibly make a continuous walking trip to endangering their health and safety (Shaheen and Chan, 2016;Chidambara, 2019). Discontent of residents might surface when the developers and governments neglect designing safe, connective, walkable infrastructure for pedestrians, and prioritize designing the infrastructure to address the increasing number of automobiles and congested traffic to levels that encroach on open public spaces and suffocate access to transit stations (Noland et al, 2017;Lamour et al, 2019). Ironically, diminishing the walkability around transit hubs and limiting access to public transportation in the pursuit of solving traffic congestion will ultimately force residents onto more dependency on private vehicles, thus aggravating the problem of traffic congestion even more.…”

Section: Transit Hubs and Transit-oriented Developmentmentioning

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Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Baobeid

Koç

Al-Ghamdi

2021

Front. Built Environ.

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Urban sprawl and increasing population density in urban centers create the challenge to finding ways of sustainable transportation solutions that preserve the convenience of residents while reducing emissions. Therefore, walkability is a core urban design element because of being advantageous onto three fronts: health, livability, and sustainability. Adopting walkability as urban solution relieves conceptual and practical tensions between the individualistic interests manifested in the desire to own and use private cars, and the need to reduce transportation-based consumption. This review advocates that long-term health benefits from walking and physical activity are the premier incentive to repurpose our cities to be more sustainable and more walking friendly, and spark behavioral change into reducing car dependency for all daily transportations. The review inspects physical elements of the built environment that make the walking trip feasible and desirable, such as connectivity, accessibility, and closeness of destination points, presence of greenness and parks, commercial retail, and proximity to transit hubs and stations. Hence, this review explores a few popular walkability evaluation indices and frameworks that employ subjective, objective, and/or distinctive methods within variant environmental, cultural, and national context. There is no unified universal standardized walkability theory despite the need for rigorous evaluation tools for policy makers and developers. Furthermore, there is a lack of emphasis on air quality and thermal stress while approaching walkability, despite being important elements in the walking experience. Research opportunities in the field of walkability can leverage location tracking from smart devices and identify the interaction patterns of pedestrians with other transportation modes, especially for those with fundamental movement challenges such as wheelchair users.

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Section: Transit Hubs and Transit-oriented Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Baobeid

Koç

Al-Ghamdi

2021

Front. Built Environ.

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“…This allows riders to reach their destinations more easily, thus promoting enhanced ridership by making transit more accessible. TOD can mean redevelopment of an existing area, or the construction of one or more new buildings whose orientation and design accelerate the use of sustainable and convenient modes of transportation, including active transportation and public transit [16][17][18]. Figure 2 illustrates a TOD compact node concept.…”

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Transit-Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station

Nafi

Furlan

Grosvald

et al. 2021

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Over the last two decades, transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely implemented as an integrated strategy to enhance urban livability. Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has faced urban challenges such as excessive reliance on private vehicles, absence of a well-established public transportation system, and issues with integration of last-mile connectivity. This research study explores Al Sadd, a mixed-use neighborhood in Doha, in order to investigate key factors to be addressed for enhancing urban livability within this neighborhood. These factors were analyzed through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods incorporating: (1) a literature review focusing on sustainability, smart growth, and transit-oriented development; (2) data collection and analysis utilizing oral and visual data from the Qatari Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), Qatar Rail, and private engineering and consulting companies; and (3) analytical and applied study through site analysis, observation, photographs, and field notes. A regeneration master plan for the study area proposes the creation of avenues for urban interaction through the introduction of community open spaces, pedestrian-friendly streets, and other measures promoting city compactness. The outcome of this research study illustrates how the enactment of a TOD model can lead to smart growth and eco-friendly urban living by emphasizing TOD principles which promote a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood.

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“…No âmbito dos atributos propriamente de infraestrutura, destacam-se a acessibilidade universal, que, por meio de elementos como rampas, piso tátil, painéis informativos em braile etc., inclui pessoas com as mais diversas características antropométricas e sensoriais, como pessoas com restrição de mobilidade (Bentzen et al, 2020;Pembuain, Priyanto e Suparma, 2020); a drenagem, para garantir ao usuário, por meio de medidas que auxiliem o escoamento de águas pluviais, que não haja acúmulo de água na superfície do passeio e, assim, não comprometa a segurança do pedestre em um possível desvio de sua rota pelo leito dos carros (Hermida, Cordero e Orellana, 2019); e a iluminação, que deve garantir condições mínimas para o tráfego de pedestres quando não há luz natural nas calçadas, nas faixas de travessia, interseções, passarelas e outros trechos de rota de pedestres (Lamour, Morelli e Marins, 2019;Rišová e Madajová, 2020).…”

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Avaliação ponderada sobre a percepção da infraestrutura de calçadas por meio da técnica Delphi-Fuzzy e análises geoespaciais

Silveira

Schvartz

Oestreich

et al. 2021

RevMorfologiaUrbana

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Para promover a caminhada nas cidades é necessário prover condições adequadas de infraestrutura relacionadas às calçadas. No entanto, são inú-meras as variáveis que podem interferir na percepção da qualidade das cal-çadas por parte dos usuários dessas vias. Dessa forma, esse estudo se pro-põe a apresentar um método de avaliação da qualidade das calçadas utili-zando um índice ponderado com base em análises geoespaciais e na percep-ção dos usuários. As análises quantitativas realizadas envolvem a aplicação da lógica fuzzy, e as técnicas Delphi e Schulze. O método foi aplicado na área central de uma cidade brasileira de pequeno porte localizada no esta-do do Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados do estudo são discutidos com base na seleção dos atributos importantes para a caminhada e ponderação e per-cepção desses atributos. De uma maneira geral, a análise de sensibilidade mostra que o método é adequado e que, portanto, consegue transmitir dire-tamente as experiências vivenciadas no ambiente urbano. Assim, este estudo contribui com a proposição de um método que pode ser utilizado por plane-jadores urbanos para tomar decisões relacionadas a políticas públicas vol-tadas a mobilidade de pedestres.

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Improving walkability in a TOD context: Spatial strategies that enhance walking in the Belém neighbourhood, in São Paulo, Brazil

Cited by 44 publications

References 25 publications

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Transit-Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station

Avaliação ponderada sobre a percepção da infraestrutura de calçadas por meio da técnica Delphi-Fuzzy e análises geoespaciais

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