Walkyourplace – Evaluating Neighbourhood Accessibility at Street Level

Steiniger, Stefan; Poorazizi, Mohammad Ebrahim; Hunter, Andrew

doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-4-w1-1-2013

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“…See Steiniger et al (2013) for a description of the WalkYourPlace, Cycling, Walking, and Transit & Walking models. 11. http://overpass-api.de/…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The WalkYourPlace (http://planyourplace.ca/elgg/pypWalkYourPlace/) application allows users to evaluate accessibility of urban facilities using 'quality of life' indicators, such as the number of grocery stores, shopping and recreation facilities, and local crime in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Steiniger et al 2013). The system evaluates the area that is accessible using pedestrian, transit, and cycling infrastructure.…”

Section: The Walkyourplace Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform

Poorazizi

Steiniger

Hunter

2015

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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Recent advances in Web technologies have opened avenues to create socio-technical platforms that can empower citizens in urban planning processes. The rise of the GeoWeb and the popularity of Web 2.0 collaborative tools can facilitate the development of a new generation of bottom-up Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS) platforms that can incorporate user-generated content into Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). New service-based delivery mechanisms can provide architectural flexibility and adaptability, and enable the public to benefit from ubiquitous information access.From an e-participation perspective, Web 2.0 social networking functions support interactive communication among various PPGIS stakeholders, e.g., citizens, planners, and decision makers. The main contribution of this article is to present a reference architecture for e-planning platforms that (1) facilitates effective e-participation by allowing multidirectional map-based communication among various land development stakeholders (e.g., planners, decision makers, citizens, etc.), and (2) enables incorporation of visualization, evaluation, and discussion capabilities to support community planning processes. To achieve this, we developed a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that exploits SDI principles and Web 2.0 technologies. The platform architecture allows heterogeneous data sources, analytical functionality and tools, and presentation frameworks to be plugged into a coherent system to provide a planning and decision support platform. We present two real-world implementations of the proposed architecture that have been developed to support community engagement in the City of Calgary, Canada.

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“…See Steiniger et al (2013) for a description of the WalkYourPlace, Cycling, Walking, and Transit & Walking models. 11. http://overpass-api.de/…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Walkyourplace Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform

Poorazizi

Steiniger

Hunter

2015

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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“…It evaluates accessibility and/or walkability of the user's neighbourhood based on the number of public services, parks, shopping, etc. within a given walk-time (see Steiniger, Poorazizi, & Hunter, 2013). The tool also evaluates the level of crime within the same walk-time area to estimate a crime-index.…”

Section: E-planning Functionality Implementedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Steiniger

Poorazizi

Hunter

2016

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Citizen participation should be an essential part of an urban planning process if the needs of the local population are to be addressed. Citizen participation should also improve acceptance of private construction projects by residents that live in or near such development. A complementary form of citizen participation to public planning meetings is to permit citizen engagement via Web 2.0 technologies, which also has the potential to get citizens involved that are usually difficult to reach. We aim to build a social, i.e. participatory, planning platform that allows technology savvy citizens to inform themselves of future and ongoing development projects and to also discuss them online. In this work we discuss the functional needs and context-of-use constraints of such an e-planning platform. A conceptual model of the technical architecture is outlined and a prototype implementation is presented. This prototype is built on free and open source software components, including a social network, to enable platform adoption in other locations. Finally, we discuss the research needs that are to be addressed if the development of participatory e-planning platforms should advance.

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“…Our first platform prototype was implemented to measure accessibility in Calgary, Canada (Steiniger et al 2013). For this prototype we used road network data from OpenStreetMap and Points of Interest (POI) were received from MapQuest's proprietary online database.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Adopting the basic method from Walkscore.com (2011) our accessibility score is calculated in three basic steps for a particular location (x,y) (see Steiniger et al 2013): (i) calculation of an accessibility area, i.e. a walkshed, (ii) retrieval of activity opportunities (i.e.…”

Section: Evaluating Urban Walkabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal enabled Content-based Image Retrieval

Belgiu¹,

Sudmanns²,

Tiede³

et al. 2016

GIScience

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used for monitoring and observation of dynamic phenomena. A sensor in WSNs covers only a limited region, depending on its sensing and communicating ranges, as well as the environment configuration. For efficient deployment of sensors in a WSN the coverage estimation is a critical issue. Probabilistic methods are among the most accurate models proposed for sensor coverage estimation. However, most of these methods are based on raster representation of the environment for coverage estimation which limits their quality. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic method for estimation of the coverage of a sensor network based on 3D vector representation of the environment.

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Walkyourplace – Evaluating Neighbourhood Accessibility at Street Level

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform

A service-oriented architecture to enable participatory planning: an e-planning platform

Planning with Citizens: Implementation of an e-Planning Platform and Analysis of Research Needs

Spatiotemporal enabled Content-based Image Retrieval

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