Walkability Indicators for Pedestrian-Friendly Design

Gori, Stefano; Nigro, Marialisa; Petrelli, Marco

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“…The IMI scale included six attributes: Traffic safety, accessibility, pleasurability, crime safety, density, diversity, and block factor. Gori et al [46] focused on the analysis of walking indicators related to the structure of the road network, namely measures of connectivity, measures of quality, and measures of proximity, to provide useful information and establish a performance standard in terms of walkability for new and/or existing development areas. The walking indicators were applied to different zones within different cities in Italy.…”

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Assessing Sidewalk and Corridor Walkability in Developing Countries

Shaaban

2019

Sustainability

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Finding a simple and less expensive method to assess and improve sidewalk and corridor conditions in developing countries is essential in order to motivate more people to walk. This study aimed to design and test a method that uses direct observations of driver behavior and street measurements to assess sidewalk and corridor walkability in developing countries. The proposed method includes different walkability indicators related to sidewalk features, crossing facilities, sidewalk facilities, and driver behavior to provide one score that represents the walkability of a sidewalk and one that represents the walkability of a corridor. The method was tested on streets from 10 neighborhoods in the city of Doha, Qatar. The results indicated that the developed method was easy to use and could efficiently measure various indicators, illustrating that it can be used to evaluate corridors with different characteristics to identify and rank areas that require improvement. The study's findings will provide maintenance agencies, policymakers, and practitioners in developing countries with a simple, efficient, and cost-effective method to evaluate, plan, rank, and improve the walkability of sidewalks and corridors. index measuring poverty, literacy, education, and life expectancy, in addition to other factors. A key characteristic of a developing country is poor infrastructure. Some of these problems include narrow streets [12,13], obstructions [14,15], lack of shaded corridors [16], appealing elements [17], and aggressive driving against pedestrians [18].Sidewalks are the main infrastructure for pedestrian mobility. Although studying the condition of sidewalks and their impact on walkability has received considerable attention in different countries, few studies investigating sidewalks in developing countries exist. As such, the present study strives to investigate walkability in a developing country properly. The first aim of this study is to design a simple measuring method that assesses sidewalks and corridors in developing countries. The second aim is to apply the method to real-life data to check its ability to assess the sidewalk walkability in Qatar, a developing country, effectively. As a developing country in the Middle East, Qatar is a unique case. Even though Qatar is considered as one of the most advanced countries in the region-thanks to having one of the highest gross domestic product per capita in the world-the country is still considered a developing country according to the United Nations for several reasons. For instance, Qatar's infrastructure, particularly the transportation one, is facing problems. Some of these problems were caused by the rapid continuous growth of the population, resulting in heavy pressure on the existing transportation infrastructure, a low-quality non-motorized transportation infrastructure, traffic safety problems, noise and air pollution concerns, coordination issues between different public agencies, and a shortage in experienced transportation professionals for management, planni...

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Assessing Sidewalk and Corridor Walkability in Developing Countries

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2019

Sustainability

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“…Moreover, it has been demonstrated as controlled pedestrian crossings are usually required to assure the security of the paths for the pedestrians. Finally, quality measures have been compared with walkability measures connected with the road network structure of the zones and available from the literature (Gori et al, 2014, Table 5). …”

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“…It confirms as the PCA is not sufficient by itself to describe the walkability of an area, thus assuring a high PCA value does not involve a high walkability propensity. Moreover, the PCA is computed not taking into account the presence of streets usually considered adverse for pedestrian (called in Gori et al, 2014 as "links of type 2"). On the other hand, the increase of "links of type 2" in the urban zones of Rome involves an increase of the quality measures before defined as the traffic lights density, the total activity density, the population density as well as of the average pedestrian flow.…”

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Understanding the Walkability Propensity

Nigro

Petrelli

Ušpalytė−Vitkūnienė

et al. 2018

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Abstract. Walkability analysis has grown in popularity in recent years: several studies have analysed the public health, economic, environmental, transportation and other benefits of promoting walkability. Different authors in the literature focus on the analysis of walking indicators related to the structure of the road network to explain the walkability of an area. However, extra efforts have to be made to study many other conditions that affect the propensity to walk: not just the shape of the network and the urban topology, but also the security and the attractiveness of the landscape, or specific characteristics of the infrastructure such as the size of the sidewalks, the automobile accommodation values (automobile and motorcycle parking) and the pedestrian route difficulty (slope and over length of the paths, dead-end streets). This paper aims to understand the walkability propensity, investigating explanatory variables related to the concept of the pedestrian path quality at the microscopic level. Several data have been collected in different zones of the Rome City (Italy), utterly dissimilar from the pedestrian point of view. These data have been compared with the real path for pedestrian choices and with other standard walkability measures from literature.

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“…O deslocamento a pé, ou caminhada, é um dos modos de transporte mais importante nas cidades que buscam implantar o conceito de mobilidade sustentável [GORI; NIGRO;PETRELLI, 2014;GUO;LOO, 2013;YOSHIDA;ALONGE;MAGAGNIN, 2016]. Por esse motivo, muitos municípios brasileiros têm colocado em debate a qualidade da infraestrutura ofertada aos pedestres, em especial, por aquelas pessoas que possuem alguma deficiência ou mobilidade reduzida [LANCHOTI;BRUNA, 2010].…”

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Auditoria Técnica Para Avaliação De Caminhabilidade

Pires¹,

Rossetto²,

Basso³

et al. 2017

Blucher Design Proceedings

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Palavras-chave: Caminhabilidade, Auditoria técnica, Infraestrutura de pedestre.Este artigo visa apresentar o resultado da aplicação de uma proposta metodológica para mensurar a caminhabilidade por meio da adaptação de métodos de auditoria técnica existentes. Os resultados encontrados apontam para a validade do método proposto. Sugere-se sua aplicação em outros percursos e recortes espaciais, como forma de consolidar sua validação.

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Walkability Indicators for Pedestrian-Friendly Design

Cited by 48 publications

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Assessing Sidewalk and Corridor Walkability in Developing Countries

Assessing Sidewalk and Corridor Walkability in Developing Countries

Understanding the Walkability Propensity

Auditoria Técnica Para Avaliação De Caminhabilidade

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