Citation

Aghaabbasi M, Moeinaddini M, Zaly Shah M, Asadi-Shekari Z. J. Transp. Health 2017; 5: 97-112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jth.2016.08.012

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

To date, several assessment tools have been developed to evaluate the pedestrian environments and sidewalks at the street and neighborhood level. While the existing tools that assess sidewalks at the street level consider the microscale sidewalk factors, the assessment tools at the neighborhood level neglected the importance of microlevel factors for the assessment purpose. In addition, the important role of residents in neighborhoods in the examination and review procedure of neighborhood facilities is overlooked. In contrast with previous assessment methods that considered macro and mesoscale factors for assessment purpose, this research has developed an assessment method to evaluate the neighborhood sidewalks using the microscale factors. This tool has been developed in the form of a questionnaire to assess the sidewalk conditions within the neighborhoods. The proposed tool has been tested in three neighborhoods within Johor Bahru District in Malaysia. Most sidewalk factors in these surveys showed moderate to high reliability. The results of using the proposed tool indicate that the tool is capable of identifying the drawbacks of neighborhood sidewalks. In addition, this tool allows the residents to convey their needs to city planners and ask for improving existing sidewalks. Lastly, the tool appears ready to be used by urban planners and researchers.

Language: en

Keywords

Mathematical models; Infrastructure; Pedestrians; Walking; Built environment; Sidewalks; Streetscape; Residential areas; Johor Bahru (Malaysia)