Built environment attributes and their influence on walkability

F Fonseca, PJG Ribeiro, E Conticelli… - International Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Walking is a sustainable mode of transport and a healthy way of doing physical activity.
Walkability is a concept that has gained enormous popularity in recent years due to its …

Coordinating urban construction and district-level population density for balanced development: An explorative structural equation modeling analysis on Shanghai

SS Wu, J Cheng, SM Lo, CC Chen, Y Bai - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Balanced development is essential for sustainable development. Investigating the
coordination between urban construction and district-level population density can deepen …

Spatial disparities of street walkability in Moscow in the context of healthy urban environment

NV Shartova, EE Mironova, MY Grischenko - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban walkability might be one of the most important indicators of a healthy city. Taking
Moscow as a case study we focused on assessing the walkability through a well-known …

Walkability assessment for urban areas around railway stations along the Rhine-Alpine Corridor

N Otsuka, D Wittowsky, M Damerau, C Gerten - Journal of transport …, 2021 - Elsevier
Walking may be the primary mode to access a railway station, yet the walkability around
stations has not been well researched. This paper explores methodologies for assessing …

Walkability compass—a space syntax solution for comparative studies

K Zaleckis, S Chmielewski, J Kamičaitytė… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ongoing discourse on air quality and climate changes positions walkability as a pivotal
point of sustainable urban planning. Urban studies examine a city's walkability in terms of …

Walkability assessment and tourism cities: the case of Venice

A Gorrini, V Bertini - International Journal of Tourism Cities, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a systematic review of the contributions
present in the literature about walkability. This is aimed at defining a set of criteria and …

[HTML][HTML] Comfort and time-based walkability index design: a GIS-based proposal

T Al Shammas, F Escobar - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

Towards an enriched framework of service evaluation for pedestrian and bicyclist infrastructure: acknowledging the power of users' perceptions

A Rodriguez-Valencia, JA Vallejo-Borda, GA Barrero… - Transportation, 2022 - Springer
More and more cities worldwide are striving for sustainability and livability. Measuring the
service or performance of local-scale spaces for pedestrians and bicyclists to better …

Is walkability equally distributed among downtowners? Evaluating the pedestrian streetscapes of eight European capitals using a micro-scale audit approach

A Bartzokas-Tsiompras, EM Tampouraki… - City Sustain …, 2020 - books.google.com
In this paper, we evaluate different elements of the urban micro-scale environment in eight
European capitals' downtown areas (ie Vienna, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Madrid, Brussels …

Towards a multiple-scenario approach for walkability assessment: An empirical application in Shenzhen, China

ETH Chan, T Schwanen, D Banister - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose to use a relational lens to understand walkability by
acknowledging that what constitutes a walkable environment may vary considerably …