Influence of environmental street characteristics on walking route choice of elderly people

Borst, H.C.; Vries, S.I. de; Graham, Jamie M.A.; Dongen, Jef E.F. van; Bakker, Ingrid; Miedema, Harald S.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.08.002

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“…We hypothesized that measures of perceived availability of destinations (i.e. diversity of destinations, access to shops, access to public transport) (10)(11)(12)20) , accessibility of destinations (e.g. pedestrian infrastructure) (10,12,20) , aspects pertaining to personal safety (e.g.…”

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“…diversity of destinations, access to shops, access to public transport) (10)(11)(12)20) , accessibility of destinations (e.g. pedestrian infrastructure) (10,12,20) , aspects pertaining to personal safety (e.g. presence of people and safety from crime) (20)(21)(22) and availability of places for sitting (22)(23)(24) would be positively related to walking for transportation.…”

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Ageing in an ultra-dense metropolis: perceived neighbourhood characteristics and utilitarian walking in Hong Kong elders

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Objective: The neighbourhood built environment may affect walking behaviour of elders. However, such effects remain underexplored, especially in an Asian context. We examined associations of perceived environmental attributes with overall and neighbourhood-specific walking for transport in a sample of Chinese elders residing in Hong Kong, an ultra-dense Chinese metropolis. Design: Cross-sectional observational study using a two-stage stratified sampling strategy. Setting: Hong Kong, China. Subjects: Chinese-speaking elders (n 484), with no cognitive impairment and able to walk without assistance, residing in thirty-two selected communities stratified by socio-economic status and walkability, were interviewer-administered validated measures of perceived neighbourhood environment and walking for transport. Results: Much higher levels of transport-related walking (mean 569 (SD 452) min/ week) than found in Western samples were reported. The degree of perceived access to shops, crowdedness, presence of sitting facilities and easy access of residential entrance were independently positively related to both frequency of overall and within-neighbourhood walking for transportation. Infrastructure for walking and access to public transport were predictive of higher frequency of transport-related walking irrespective of location, while the perceived degree of land-use mix was predictive of higher levels of within-neighbourhood walking.

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“…This makes sense, as walking is often considered as one of a set of travel modes, where pedestrian trips account for a portion of the modal split in travel [115], and where the choice of walking among available modes of travel is dependent upon the available infrastructure for trip-making, cost, historical factors, and other parameters of accessibility [116].…”

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Torrens

2016

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Abstract:Streetscapes have presented a long-standing interest in many fields. Recently, there has been a resurgence of attention on streetscape issues, catalyzed in large part by computing. Because of computing, there is more understanding, vistas, data, and analysis of and on streetscape phenomena than ever before. This diversity of lenses trained on streetscapes permits us to address long-standing questions, such as how people use information while mobile, how interactions with people and things occur on streets, how we might safeguard crowds, how we can design services to assist pedestrians, and how we could better support special populations as they traverse cities. Amid each of these avenues of inquiry, computing is facilitating new ways of posing these questions, particularly by expanding the scope of what-if exploration that is possible. With assistance from computing, consideration of streetscapes now reaches across scales, from the neurological interactions that form among place cells in the brain up to informatics that afford real-time views of activity over whole urban spaces. For some streetscape phenomena, computing allows us to build realistic but synthetic facsimiles in computation, which can function as artificial laboratories for testing ideas. In this paper, I review the domain science for studying streetscapes from vantages in physics, urban studies, animation and the visual arts, psychology, biology, and behavioral geography. I also review the computational developments shaping streetscape science, with particular emphasis on modeling and simulation as informed by data acquisition and generation, data models, path-planning heuristics, artificial intelligence for navigation and way-finding, timing, synthetic vision, steering routines, kinematics, and geometrical treatment of collision detection and avoidance. I also discuss the implications that the advances in computing streetscapes might have on emerging developments in cyber-physical systems and new developments in urban computing and mobile computing.

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“…Así, dos de las seis referencias evaluadas establecen valoración de factores urbanos mediante un panel de expertos, mientras que en las cuatro referencias restantes, la valoración se establece con base en las respuestas de la población residente. En este último caso es posible distinguir a su vez pequeños matices que deben ser tenidos en cuenta, ya que de las cuatro referencias basadas en cuestionarios a población, Borst et al (2009) Entrando en detalle en la valoración de factores recogidos en este subconjunto de referencias bibliográficas seleccionadas, el número de factores evaluados se ha reducido levemente desde los 48 factores de la fase II a 41 factores (Gráfico 6). De este conjunto de factores valorados, se puede apreciar cómo el factor "usos y negocios" ocupa un papel destacado de acuerdo con la frecuencia de aparición (n=6) respecto al total de referencias.…”

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Entornos de movilidad peatonal: una revisión de enfoques, factores y condicionantes

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2015

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5issn impreso 0250-7161 | issn digital vol 41 | n o 123 | mayo 2015 | pp. 5-27 | artículos | ©EURE Entornos de movilidad peatonal: una revisión de enfoques, factores y condicionantesLuis Miguel Valenzuela-Montes. Universidad de Granada, Granada, España. Rubén Talavera-García. Universidad de Granada, Granada, España.resumen | El peatón ocupa un lugar destacado en la movilidad urbana, tanto por representar el modo de transporte más básico y que alimenta al resto de modos de transporte, como por mantener una relación intensa y directa con las actividades urbanas, conformando los denominados entornos de movilidad peatonal o entornos peatonales. Es por ello que profundizar en el conocimiento de aquellos factores de los entornos construidos que mayor relación guardan con el peatón resulta fundamental, tanto para mejorar la calidad de la movilidad peatonal en las calles, como para lograr que las centralidades, el transporte público o los espacios públicos sean más accesibles. Con esta finalidad, el presente artículo evalúa, a través de la bibliografía especializada, los enfoques más frecuentes de análisis de la figura del peatón, así como los factores que son tenidos en cuenta por la población para optar por la modalidad de transporte que él representa, considerando su dimensión y su valoración.palabras clave | espacio público, medioambiente urbano, movilidad.

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Influence of environmental street characteristics on walking route choice of elderly people

Cited by 186 publications

References 28 publications

Ageing in an ultra-dense metropolis: perceived neighbourhood characteristics and utilitarian walking in Hong Kong elders

Ageing in an ultra-dense metropolis: perceived neighbourhood characteristics and utilitarian walking in Hong Kong elders

Computational Streetscapes

Entornos de movilidad peatonal: una revisión de enfoques, factores y condicionantes

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