Assessing neighbourhood destination access for children: development of the NDAI-C audit tool

Hannah Badland, Phil Donovan, Suzanne Mavoa, Melody Oliver, Moushumi Chaudhury and Karen Witten

Environment and Planning B, 2015, vol. 42, issue 6, 1148-1160

Abstract: Considerable societal changes across many countries have altered how children interact with their local environment, yet child-specific destination data have not been translated into a child-related destination accessibility index to further understand how neighbourhood locations support or hinder child mobility. Using data sourced from 238 9–11 year-old children living in Auckland, New Zealand, we aimed to: identify common destinations children travelled to; and develop a spatially derived objective index to quantify access to destinations that may support child mobility in the neighbourhood. Our findings show that children accessed a wide range of destinations during their daily activities, and the neighbourhoods that supported children's mobility tended to be located in more established areas, rather than newer greenfield developments.

Keywords: accessibility; activity location; Australasia; built environment; travel behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1068/b140009p

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