What matters when it comes to “Walk and the city”? Defining a weighted GIS-based walkability index

Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Alexandros; Photis, Yorgos N.

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2017.06.001

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“…An additional problem is that currently available WI have largely overlooked the importance of the relative weighting of the factors included in the index [15,42]. For example, Gullón et al [34] weighted all the factors equally.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other studies have acknowledged the importance of weighting the three traditional factors of walkability (street connectivity, residential density, and land-use mix) differently when assessing transport walking [43]. Furthermore, in a study supported by an online survey, researchers assigned relative weights to each of the factors considered for the Walkability Index [42]. These varying approaches show that the debate regarding the weighting of the various factors remains open, especially since new factors for the Walkability Index are continually being proposed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Comfort and Time-Based Walkability Index Design: A GIS-Based Proposal

Shammas

Escobar

2019

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Encouraging people to walk as a means of transport throughout their daily lives has obvious benefits for the environment, the economy, and personal health. Specific features of the built environment have a significant influence on encouraging or discouraging walking. By identifying and quantifying these features we can design Walkability Indices (WI). The WI in the literature do not take factors related to comfort such as noise pollution and shade/sun conditions into account. Given the importance of these factors in walking, we decided to include them in our design of a new geographic information system (GIS)-based WI. The relative weight of each factor was determined by consulting experts. The proposed WI, computed for the entire city of Madrid, Spain, uses sections of the sidewalk as the spatial unit. The properties of this WI (based on secondary sources, spatially detailed, dynamic, weighted, and including comfort-related factors) fill a gap in previous WI proposals.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Comfort and Time-Based Walkability Index Design: A GIS-Based Proposal

Shammas

Escobar

2019

IJERPH

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“…Furthermore, the gathered data were structured, processed and analysed to produce the final results of the paper. The statistical methods used in the GIS program also helped to increase the role of applied geography in spatial planning and spatial analysis (Bartzokas-Tsiompras & Photis 2017, 2019, 2020bBartzokas-Tsiompras et al 2020a, 2021 processes for the land use patterns in the Republic of Kosovo. Statistical methods have been used to collect and analyze statistical sources by different entities, which are then processed and yielded valuable results.…”

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Opportunities for the development of cross-border tourism in South-East Europe: The case of Kosovo-Albania border.

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HOTI³

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This paper examines the regional and institutional opportunities for cross-border cooperation, networking and tourism development at the Kosovo- Albania border, which is one of the internal borders of the Albanian ethnic territory. Completion of the study confirms the hypothesis that closure of states within the classical boundaries causes obstacles, not only for the development of cross-border tourism, especially when viewed from the perspective of sustainable tourism development in this region. While, on the other hand, cross border cooperation enables exchanges of experiences, Ideas between communities, etc., and all this reflects on the economic prosperity of these areas. In the process of developing the countries of southern Europe, particular importance has been paid to settlements and infrastructure away from border areas, while border regions have remained underdeveloped and without prospects. Development has been challenged in many border areas, including all Balkan states, while these areas were abolished as a result of the population's departure. The idea in this case study, aims to "create" the unique tourist zone "Green Albania" between the two countries, with its unique natural characteristics, leading to economic, cultural and national integration, as well as preservation and advancing the natural and cultural values of the cross-border territory.

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“…There is a strong relationship between walkability and the built environment. The extent to which the built environment boosts the comfortable and safe walking trips could be defined as the main concept of walkability [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Solid literature gave definitions for the walkability elements or indices that can be measured quantitively, which had been done by many scholars in different cities and contexts. According to Tsiompras and Photis [10], the built environment and people's travel behavior should be assessed, in order to measure walkability. The built environment could be measured through the composite attributes of walkability that illustrate the easiness and friendliness of a commute.…”

Section: Walkability Indicesmentioning

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Walkability Between Dubai Developments: “Seen but Not Reached” – A Portrayal Assessment of Walkability Indices in Dubai, Uae

Zabanoot

Bleibleh

2019

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The rapid ongoing urbanization growth in Dubai's developments has resulted in issues related to walkability and connectivity, considered as a tremendous development pressure. The aim of this study is to examine and evaluate the state and existence of physical connections within and between Dubai's developments (downtown Dubai and City Walk), in terms of walkability and the infrastructure provided for that. The assessment is based on portrayal documentation of three walkability indices (design, destination and diversity of land use). The study methodology is through use of personal experience, photographs and observations, through visitations to the case studies mentioned. The analyzed findings showed that downtown Dubai and City Walk are walkable within themselves, only through achieving the walkability indices used in this study; however, there is no supporting infrastructure for walkability just outside those developments, and certainly not between them, which creates an impossibility to walk for commuting between these two developments that are less than 1.5 km apart from each other. Thus, the essential mode of walkability for commuting between Dubai's developments was neglected and the fragmentation between nearby developments occurred because of the inconsistency in the levels of supported infrastructure and urban contexts.

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What matters when it comes to “Walk and the city”? Defining a weighted GIS-based walkability index

Cited by 41 publications

References 27 publications

Comfort and Time-Based Walkability Index Design: A GIS-Based Proposal

Comfort and Time-Based Walkability Index Design: A GIS-Based Proposal

Opportunities for the development of cross-border tourism in South-East Europe: The case of Kosovo-Albania border.

Walkability Between Dubai Developments: “Seen but Not Reached” – A Portrayal Assessment of Walkability Indices in Dubai, Uae

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