Towards Healthy Aging: Influence of the Built Environment on Elderly Pedestrian Safety at the Micro-Level

Lv, Muhan; Wang, Ningcheng; Yao, Shanshan; Wu, Jianping; Fang, Lian-Hua

doi:10.3390/ijerph18189534

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“…Countries that also face serious aging problems, such as Japan [31,32], South Korea [33], Finland [34], and the United States [35,36], have also attracted extensive attention from scholars to study the accessibility of public service facilities. With the development of new urban science, multi-source data provide important support for evaluating the accessibility of elderly care facilities [37], such as POI (point of interest) [38][39][40], street-view images [41][42][43][44], smart cards [45], and mobile phones [46]. Compared with the traditional small-scale sampling method, the use of multi-source data can achieve large-scale and rapid collection of the objective distribution of urban pension service resources [47].…”

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Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Huang

Gong

White

2022

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With the growing challenge of aging populations around the world, the study of the care services for older adults is an essential initiative to accommodate the particular needs of the disadvantaged communities and promote social equity. Based on open-source data and the geographic information system (GIS), this paper quantifies and visualizes the imbalance in the spatial distribution of elderly care facilities in 14,578 neighborhoods in downtown (seven districts) Shanghai, China. Eight types of elderly care facilities were obtained from Shanghai elderly care service platform, divided into two categories according to their service scale. With the introduction of the improved Gaussian 2-step floating catchment area method, the accessibility of two category facilities was calculated. Through the global autocorrelation analysis, it is found that the accessibility of elderly care facilities has the characteristics of spatial agglomeration. Local autocorrelation analysis indicates the cold and hot spots in the accessibility agglomeration state of the two types of facilities, by which we summarized the characteristics of their spatial heterogeneity. It is found that for Category−Ⅰ, there is a large range of hot spots in Huangpu District. For Category−Ⅱ, the hot-spot and cold-spot areas show staggered distribution, and the two categories of hot spot distribution show a negative correlation. We conclude that the two categories are not evenly distributed in the urban area, which will lead to the low efficiency of resource allocation of elderly care facilities and have a negative impact on social fairness. This research offers a systematic method to study urban access to care services for older adults as well as a new perspective on improving social fairness.

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Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Huang

Gong

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2022

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“…Sheykhfard et al ( 10 ) identified factors affecting the safety of student pedestrians, focusing on crossing behavior at a crosswalk near a university campus. Lv et al ( 11 ) conducted Poisson regression and analyzed the relationship between aged pedestrians and built environments; roads’ green spaces, sidewalks, and intersections significantly affected the safety of these pedestrians, and green spaces only exerted their influence in an uncongested environment. Fonseca et al ( 12 ) also found that numerous built environment attributes affected overall walkability indices, such as residential density and pedestrian facilities.…”

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Enhancing pedestrian perceived safety through walking environment modification considering traffic and walking infrastructure

Kim,

Choi,

Choi

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Front. Public Health

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Urban policies have recently been formulated, following the increasing interest in pedestrian-friendly cities, people-centered safety, and accessibility. Despite the research efforts on physical walking safety, safety evaluations centered on pedestrian perception have been under-reported. Investigating the factors affecting pedestrian subjective safety perception is critical to promoting walking intention because pedestrians forgo walking if they feel unsafe. This study explored the relationship between various walking environmental factors and pedestrians’ psychological perception of safety by surveying 99 pedestrians’ perceptions at nine study sites and conducting a field investigation. Because of the multifaceted nature of pedestrian perception, mediation effect analyses were also conducted to understand the relationship between walking environment factors and perceived safety in depth, considering the role of the perception of traffic characteristics and walking infrastructure. This study found that walking environmental factors closely related to physical safety (e.g., traffic safety facilities and crosswalks) may not greatly contribute to perceived safety and demonstrated that maintaining infrastructure quality is essential for enhancing perceived safety, considering the mediating effect of the perception of infrastructure on perceived safety. The results imply that to improve the walking environment, it is necessary to consider both the physical safety and the perceived safety of pedestrians. This requires comprehensive planning for enhancing traffic safety facilities as well as ensuring user comfort and pleasure through quality infrastructure. This study can provide a basis for enhancing pedestrian-centered safety and promoting residents’ walking intention for public health while increasing their perceptions of safety.

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“…For example, according to Kim [ 37 ], intersections with crosswalks or colored crosswalks do not contribute to elderly pedestrians’ safety, but rather to the safety of younger pedestrians. Muhan Lv et al [ 38 ] analyzed the occurrence of vehicle–elderly pedestrian collisions in relation to the characteristics of the built environment at the road segment level (microlevel) in a district of Shanghai. They considered the number of elderly pedestrian accidents in each segment as dependent variables, taxi flow and elderly population as exposure variables, and built environment features, extracted from online databases and image processing, as independent variables.…”

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The Influence of Built Environment Factors on Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety in Cities: The Experience of Madrid

Gálvez-Pérez

Guirao

Ortuño

et al. 2022

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With the progressive ageing of the population, the study of the relations between road safety and elderly users is becoming increasingly relevant. Although the decline of pedestrian skills in the elderly has been widely studied in the literature, few studies have been devoted to the contributing built environmental factors of the elderly pedestrian collisions, such as the sidewalk density, the presence of traffic lights, or even some indicator related to land use or the socioeconomic features of the urban fabric. This paper contributes to the limited literature on elderly pedestrian safety by applying a negative binomial regression to a set of built environmental variables to study the occurrence of accidents involving elderly and younger (non-elderly) pedestrians in Madrid (Spain) between 2006 and 2018. The model considers a selection of built environmental factors per city district, linked to land use, infrastructure, and socioeconomic indicators. Results have highlighted that the elderly pedestrian collisions could be avoided with the existence of a wider sidewalk in the district and a greater traffic lights density. Unlike younger pedestrian accidents, these accidents are much more favored in ageing districts with higher traffic flows.

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Towards Healthy Aging: Influence of the Built Environment on Elderly Pedestrian Safety at the Micro-Level

Cited by 15 publications

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Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Study on Spatial Distribution Equilibrium of Elderly Care Facilities in Downtown Shanghai

Enhancing pedestrian perceived safety through walking environment modification considering traffic and walking infrastructure

The Influence of Built Environment Factors on Elderly Pedestrian Road Safety in Cities: The Experience of Madrid

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