Pedestrians First: A Tool for Walkable Cities
2018
Link to the resource: https://www.itdp.org/2018/02/07/pedestrians-first-walkability-tool/
- Format:
- Web application
- Target population:
- General population
- Objetive:
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Pedestrians First facilitates the understanding and measurement of the characteristics of the physical environment that promote walkability in streets, neighbourhoods and cities.
- Methodology:
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This set of tools provides relevant criteria and indicators of the built physical public space, and an online questionnaire to assess routes, crossings, visibility, accessibility, connectivity, shade or access to local services, among other indicators.
For each of these indicators, examples of good practice and recommendations are included.
It provides a questionnaire for neighbourhood scale and another adapted to the analysis of a specific street.
- Opportunities and limitations:
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Pedestrians First provides multiple resources for a range of actors, including technicians, local government, researchers, or citizens.
It allows the evaluation of a neighbourhood and a specific street.
In some cases, it requires working with interactive maps to perform calculations with which to answer the questionnaire items.
It focuses on aspects of the built physical environment and does not address many factors that limit walkability for members of groups marginalised by their gender, ethnicity, or other factors.
- Indicators:
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Distance to local amenities (e.g. hospital/medical centre, public transportation, grocery stores). Average size of blocks of buildings. Population density. Percentage accessible public transport. Sidewalk width. Night visibility level.
- Thematic:
- Mobility and accessibility
- Link to health:
- Physical Social
- Scale of the field of study:
- Neighbourhood (or higher) Housing / street / building / bounded public space Block - set of buildings or spaces
- Implementation phase:
- Diagnosis / pre-project Monitoring and evaluation
- Methodological approach:
- Questionnaire
