Walkability index across trip purposes

Neighborhood Walkability and Active Transportation: A Correlation Study in Leisure and Shopping Purposes

“…A practical way to encourage physical activity on a daily basis is to promote active transportation. Therefore, several studies identified that a walkable environment has a positive association with active transportation [7,21,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. For example, Reyer et al used the Walkability Index and the Walk Score to explore the link to active transportation and found a tendency toward more active travel in more walkable neighborhoods [7].…”

“…Several studies have identified built environmental factors that most significantly influence walking behavior in urban and suburban areas [4,7,[19][20][21], and efforts were made to develop a methodology to objectively measure the level of walkability. Consequently, several indices such as the Walk Score, Walkability Index, and Pedestrian Index of the Environment were developed combining various built environmental variables that influence walking behavior [7,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. The Walk Score is one of the popular indices that objectively measures neighborhood walkability, taking into account the accessibility of amenities in the vicinity (e.g., grocery stores, restaurants, shopping centers, coffee shops, parks, schools) and pedestrian friendliness (e.g., intersection density and average block length) [25], and is currently used in various fields, including public health, real estate, and urban planning [33][34][35][36][37].…”

Smart Pedestrian Network: An Integrated Conceptual Model for Improving Walkability

“…Microscale walkability approaches at the level of streetscapes have also been developed for evaluating walkability [22,23,24]. Objective measures have been predominantly used in walkability research by developing walkability audits [25][26] and indexes [27,28,29] that evaluate and score the conditions provided to pedestrians. Such objective measures have been supported in Geographic Information Systems [30][31], multi-criteria analysis [25,32], virtual technologies [29,33], Web-based services, such as WalkScore, among others.…”

“…Such criteria can be grouped in the following dimensions: accessibility, safety/security, pedestrian facilities, and land use. Accessibility is in the first level of walking needs [35] and can be described as the ability to reach desired destinations, making an acceptable effort [26]. Accessibility has been often quantified as the distance to public transport [36] and key amenities, such as schools, shops and urban parks [37].…”

“…Mixed land use is found to be one of the most correlated characteristics with utilitarian walking [42,45]. Entropy and dissimilarity indexes have been adopted to evaluate the level of diversity [26]. Urban design and planning practices also have a determinant impact on walking [22,24,39].…”