Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity?

Humberto, Mateus; Laboissière, Rodrigo; Giannotti, Mariana Abrantes; Marte, Claudio Luiz; Cruz, Daniel Agostini; Primon, Henrique Barbosa

doi:10.1590/s1678-86212019000400341

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“…Los resultados revelan que la dinámica del proceso urbano en materia de peatonabilidad es lenta. Y en este sentido, la literatura incluye un conjunto de estudios de caso con temporalidad transversal y con diferentes técnicas en los cuales la importancia de la peatonabilidad se pone de manifiesto (Humberto et al, 2019;Maghelal y Capp, 2011;Shashank y Schuurman, 2019).…”

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La peatonabilidad desde la perspectiva sistémico-sustentable y la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del Parque Central de Ciudad Juárez, México

Chávez

Escalante

Vázquez

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La peatonabilidad es una característica de las ciudades sustentables. En el caso de Ciudad Juárez, México, se tienen serios rezagos en infraestructura urbana y malas prácticas cívicas que afectan el traslado a pie de las personas hacia el espacio público. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la accesibilidad radial tomando como referencia un parque urbano. La investigación adopta un método de observación directa en las rutas radiales considerando a un adulto sano. El análisis de los datos se basó en una visión sistémica de distinción entre la variabilidad aleatoria y la variabilidad especial con base en la distribución de Poisson y un posterior análisis de criticidad. El estudio se realizó en el entorno construido a un radio de 800 m del Parque Central ubicado en Ciudad Juárez. Se evaluaron seis rutas identificando y registrando los obstáculos fijos y no fijos que impedían o restringían el tránsito caminando. Los resultados revelaron que prevalecen cinco obstáculos de alta criticidad que afectan a la peatonabilidad y, por consiguiente, a la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del parque. Tres de estos obstáculos se asociaron con el estado de las aceras y los dos restantes con el estado de las calles. Se analizan escenarios de gestión para abordar esta problemática y se discute su relevancia. Finalmente, se concluye que el enfoque utilizado es pertinente para el estudio de la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del parque y se sugiere una agenda de investigación para futuros trabajos.

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La peatonabilidad desde la perspectiva sistémico-sustentable y la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del Parque Central de Ciudad Juárez, México

Chávez

Escalante

Vázquez

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“…Based on previous research [3], [18]- [22], this study uses index comparison to examine social exclusion in relation to transport. Scrutiny of the IATD and the ITSD identifies not only the areas with low accessibility levels, but also with high levels of transport social disadvantages, and thereby allows the assessment of social exclusion linked with public transport.…”

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Evaluating Public Transport Social Exclusion in Guadalajara, Mexico

Lizárraga

Grindlay

Ochoa-Covarrubias

2020

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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The role of the public transport system as promoter of social inclusion is gaining increasing attention in the fields of transport policy and planning. This is especially relevant in areas traditionally characterized by high levels of poverty and structural inequalities where it can be a decisive element in the reduction of social exclusion. This paper evaluates the topic through an innovative methodology based on index comparison. Firstly, a traditional accessibility index is used which considers the access time to public transport stops, and secondly an Index of Transport Social Disadvantage is proposed. It includes the transport disadvantage factors of the populations, such as disability, old age, low income, unemployment and pre-school children. These transport disadvantage characteristics have been divided into two groups: the first includes the disadvantage characteristics distributed equally. In the second group, the disadvantaged groups in transport with an unequal territorial distribution are taken into account. The Gini index is used to ascertain the differences in these groups. This method facilitates the identification of the unequal distribution of transport disadvantage and therefore, social exclusion. The consideration of the two indexes, access time and transport social disadvantages, will find the areas not only with low accessibility levels, but also with high levels of population with transport disadvantages, thereby assessing social exclusion linked with public transport. This methodology is applied to the public operated transport system of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico. Its development reveals which areas are affected by the under provision of public transport as well as the population characterized by transport social disadvantage, which together give a clear indicator of the situation of social exclusion linked to the public transport system.

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“…This qualification and quantification are often described by the terms "walkability" and "walking" respectively in the research literature [6,12]. "Walking" refers to the actual pedestrian behavior that is often measured in terms of walking frequency or pedestrian traffic count [13,14]. "Walkability", on the other hand, is more complicated.…”

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A link criticality approach for pedestrian network design to promote walking

Ukkusuri

Verma

2023

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Measures of walkability generally do not provide a detailed quantitative assessment of pedestrian infrastructure development prioritization. In this study, a link-based composite measure of walkability and walking is introduced to overcome this limitation. This measure, called 'pednet score', is based on a weighted pedestrian network ('pednet') made of sidewalks and crosswalks whose edge weights are descriptive of their popularity. Edge popularity is derived from home-based walk trip assignment derived from simulated pedestrian demand. Properties of the pednet score are studied using three hypothetical variants of the pednet in three North American cities, each involving the addition of candidate sidewalk and/or crosswalk segments. It is shown that a strategic selection of these segments based on pednet score can substantially increase walking trips, in some cases up to 236%, and reduce current mean pedestrian trip distances by up to 340 m. A mixed development approach involving both sidewalks and crosswalks also shows considerably higher improvement than those segments considered alone. Results from marginal benefit curves strongly indicate the utility of the pednet score as a measure of link criticality for segment prioritization in pedestrian network design.

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Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity?

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

La peatonabilidad desde la perspectiva sistémico-sustentable y la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del Parque Central de Ciudad Juárez, México

La peatonabilidad desde la perspectiva sistémico-sustentable y la calidad de la accesibilidad radial del Parque Central de Ciudad Juárez, México

Evaluating Public Transport Social Exclusion in Guadalajara, Mexico

A link criticality approach for pedestrian network design to promote walking

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