Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts

Ivan Blečić, Tanja Congiu, Giovanna Fancello and Giuseppe Andrea Trunfio
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Ivan Blečić: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Tanja Congiu: Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (DADU), University of Sassari, 07041 Alghero, Italy
Giovanna Fancello: UMR Géographie-cités (CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Diderot, EHESS), 75006 Paris, France
Giuseppe Andrea Trunfio: Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (DADU), University of Sassari, 07041 Alghero, Italy

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: We present a survey of operational methods for walkability analysis and evaluation, which we hold show promise as decision-support tools for sustainability-oriented planning and urban design. An initial overview of the literature revealed a subdivision of walkability studies into three main lines of research: transport and land use, urban health, and livable cities. A further selection of articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases focused on scientific papers that deal with walkability evaluation methods and their suitability as planning and decision-support tools. This led to the definition of a taxonomy to systematize and compare the methods with regard to factors of walkability, scale of analysis, attention on profiling, aggregation methods, spatialization and sources of data used for calibration and validation. The proposed systematization aspires to offer to non-specialist but competent urban analysts a guide and an orienteering, to help them integrate walkability analysis and evaluation into their research and practice.

Keywords: walkability; planning support tool; review; walkability measurement; walkability evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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