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Title: | A Participatory Assessment of Perceived Neighbourhood Walkability in a Small Urban Environment | Authors: | Saadi, Ismail Aganze, Roger Moeinaddini, Mehdi Asadi-Shekari, Zohreh COOLS, Mario |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | MDPI | Source: | Sustainability, 14 (1) (Art N° 206) | Abstract: | Walkability has become a research topic of great concern for preserving public health, especially in the era of the COVID-19 outbreak. Today more than ever, urban and transport policies, constrained by social distancing measures and travel restrictions, must be conceptualized and implemented with a particular emphasis on sustainable walkability. Most of the walkability models apply observation and subjective methods to measure walkability, whereas few studies address walkability based on sense perception. To fill this gap, we aim at investigating the perceived neighbourhood walkability (PNW) based on sense perception in a neighbourhood of Brussels. We designed a survey that integrates 22 items grouped into 5 dimensions (cleanness, visual aesthetics, landscape and nature, feeling of pressure, feeling of safety), as well as the socio-demographic attributes of the participants. Using various statistical methods, we show that socio-demographics have almost no effects on perceived neighbourhood walkability. Nonetheless, we found significant differences between groups of different educational backgrounds. Furthermore, using a binomial regression model, we found strong associations between PNW and at least one item from each grouping dimension. Finally, we show that based on a deep neural network for classification, the items have good predictive capabilities (78% of classification accuracy). These findings can help integrate sense perception into objective measurement methods of walkable environments. Additionally, policy recommendations should be targeted based on differences of perception across socio-demographic groups. | Notes: | Saadi, I (corresponding author), Univ Gustave Eiffel, COSYS GRETTIA, IFSTTAR, F-7745 Marne La Vallee, France.; Saadi, I (corresponding author), FRS FNRS, Rue Egmont 5, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.; Saadi, I (corresponding author), Univ Liege, Urban & Environm Engn UEE, Local Environm & Management Anal LEMA, Allee Decouverte 9,Quartier Polytech 1, B-4000 Liege, Belgium. ismail.saadi@univ-eiffel.fr; cibangalaganze@gmail.com; mehdi41360@gmail.com; asadi41360@gmail.com; mario.cools@uliege.be |
Keywords: | perceived neighbourhood walkability (PNW);deep neural network;survey design;Brussels;sense perception | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/36645 | e-ISSN: | 2071-1050 | DOI: | 10.3390/su14010206 | ISI #: | 000750810900001 | Rights: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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