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

After the emergence of the term “walkability” in the 1990’s, many metrics have been developed with the aim of evaluating the quality of the built environment for pedestrians. More recently, researchers have also sought an association of these metrics with pedestrian behavior: do better sidewalk cond...

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Main Authors:	Humberto, Mateus, Laboissière, Rodrigo, Giannotti, Mariana, Marte, Cláudio Luiz, Cruz, Daniel Agostini, Primon, Henrique
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Published:	ANTAC - Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído 2019
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spelling	ojs-article-832512019-10-04T13:09:11Z Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity? Humberto, Mateus Laboissière, Rodrigo Giannotti, Mariana Marte, Cláudio Luiz Cruz, Daniel Agostini Primon, Henrique Urban mobility; Built Environment; Active Transportation; Walkability After the emergence of the term “walkability” in the 1990’s, many metrics have been developed with the aim of evaluating the quality of the built environment for pedestrians. More recently, researchers have also sought an association of these metrics with pedestrian behavior: do better sidewalk conditions and their surroundings correspond with higher pedestrian activity? To study the association of the built environment with the share of pedestrian movements, two different indexes, one at the city level (macro) and one at the neighborhood level (micro), were proposed using georeferenced data from São Paulo (Brazil). Once the available built environment and transport-related data were incorporated in a linear regression model, the neighborhood-level index (micro) and the share of pedestrian movements presented a strong positive correlation (adjusted R² = 0.797). In addition to the contributions to the relationship of walkability scores with data from developing countries, the discussions presented in this paper intend to provide insights into the territorial disparities in pedestrian mobility, mainly those related to socio-spatial segregation. ANTAC - Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído University of São Paulo (USP) Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) 2019-10-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/view/83251 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 4 (2019); 23-36 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 4 (2019); 23-36 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 4 (2019); 23-36 1678-8621 1415-8876 eng https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/view/83251/54329 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46005 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46007 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46008 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46009 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46822 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46823 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46824 https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/downloadSuppFile/83251/46825 Direitos autorais 2019 Ambiente Construído https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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title	Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity?
title_short	Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity?
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description	After the emergence of the term “walkability” in the 1990’s, many metrics have been developed with the aim of evaluating the quality of the built environment for pedestrians. More recently, researchers have also sought an association of these metrics with pedestrian behavior: do better sidewalk conditions and their surroundings correspond with higher pedestrian activity? To study the association of the built environment with the share of pedestrian movements, two different indexes, one at the city level (macro) and one at the neighborhood level (micro), were proposed using georeferenced data from São Paulo (Brazil). Once the available built environment and transport-related data were incorporated in a linear regression model, the neighborhood-level index (micro) and the share of pedestrian movements presented a strong positive correlation (adjusted R² = 0.797). In addition to the contributions to the relationship of walkability scores with data from developing countries, the discussions presented in this paper intend to provide insights into the territorial disparities in pedestrian mobility, mainly those related to socio-spatial segregation.
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Walking and walkability: do built environment measures correspond with pedestrian activity?

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