What limits the pedestrian? Exploring perceptions of walking in the built environment and in the context of every-day life

Lindelöw, David; Svensson, Andreas; Sternudd, Catharina; Johansson, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2014.09.002

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“…This is true for the TPAQ [33], which integrates a transportation approach (reason for travel, description of travel and perception of transportation modes), but also for the NN9 [34], which associates journeys with various types of activities to connect them with needs related to walking.…”

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Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire

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It is generally accepted that active mobility, mainly walking and cycling, contributes to people’s physical and mental health. One of the current challenges is to improve our understanding of this type of behaviour. This study aims to identify factors from the daily-life environment that may be related to active mobility behaviours, in order to design a new questionnaire for a quantitative study of a large adult population. The new questionnaire obtained through this pilot study combines information from interviews with existing questionnaires materials in order to introduce new factors while retaining the factors already assessed. This approach comprises three stages. The first was a content analysis (Reinert method) of interviews with a sample of participants about daily living activities as well as mobility. This stage led to a typology of factors suggested by interviews. The second was a scoping review of the literature in order to identify the active mobility questionnaires currently used in international literature. The last stage was a cross-tabulation of the factors resulting from the written interviews and the questionnaires. A table of the inter-relationships between the interview-based typology and the questionnaires shows discrepancies between factors considered by the existing questionnaires, and factors coming from individual interviews. Independent factors which were ignored in or absent from the questionnaires are the housing situation within the urban structure, overall consideration of the activity space beyond the limits of the residential neighbourhood, the perception of all the transportation modes, and the time scheduling impacting the modes actually used. Our new questionnaire integrates both the usual factors and the new factors that may be related to active mobility behaviours.

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Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire

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“…The main policies that can promote pedestrian mobility are: The literature on all these topics is extensive; here, we refer to some general papers that are useful to deepen the specific topics [57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66].…”

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Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

Gallo

Marinelli

2020

Sustainability

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In this paper, a review of the main actions and policies that can be implemented to promote sustainable mobility is proposed. The work aims to provide a broad, albeit necessarily not exhaustive, analysis of the main studies and research that from different points of view have focused on sustainable mobility. The structure of the paper enables the reader to easily identify the topics covered and the studies related to them, so as to guide him/her to the related in-depth studies. In the first part of the paper, there is a preliminary analysis of the concept of sustainable mobility, the main transport policies implemented by the European Union and the USA, and the main statistical data useful to analyze the problem. Next, the main policies that can promote sustainable mobility are examined, classifying them into three topics: Environmental, socio-economic, and technological. Many of the policies and actions examined could be classified into more than one of the three categories used; for each of them, there is a description and the main literature work on which the topic can be analyzed in more detail. The paper concludes with a discussion on the results obtained and the prospects for research.

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“…Moreover, pedestrians are individuals with different physical conditions and preferences regarding aspects of the environment. The purpose of the trip as well as the individual’s mood and company are circumstantial aspects that also strongly influence his choice of a walking route [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. This leads us to believe that no pedestrian route will equally satisfy different individuals in different situations to the same extent.…”

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A System for Generating Customized Pleasant Pedestrian Routes Based on OpenStreetMap Data

Novack

Wang

Zipf

2018

Sensors

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In this work, we present a system that generates customized pedestrian routes entirely based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). The system enables users to define to what extent they would like the route to have green areas (e.g., parks, squares, trees), social places (e.g., cafes, restaurants, shops) and quieter streets (i.e., with less road traffic). We present how the greenness, sociability, and quietness factors are defined and extracted from OSM as well as how they are integrated into a routing cost function. We intrinsically evaluate customized routes from one-thousand trips, i.e., origin–destination pairs, and observe that these are, in general, as we intended—slightly longer but significantly more social, greener, and quieter than the respective shortest routes. Based on a survey taken by 156 individuals, we also evaluate the system’s usefulness, usability, controlability, and transparency. The majority of the survey participants agree that the system is useful and easy to use and that it gives them the feeling of being in control regarding the extraction of routes in accordance with their greenness, sociability, and quietness preferences. The survey also provides valuable insights into users requirements and wishes regarding a tool for interactively generating customized pedestrian routes.

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What limits the pedestrian? Exploring perceptions of walking in the built environment and in the context of every-day life

Cited by 47 publications

References 43 publications

Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire

Active Mobility and Environment: A Pilot Qualitative Study for the Design of a New Questionnaire

Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

A System for Generating Customized Pleasant Pedestrian Routes Based on OpenStreetMap Data

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