A GIS Approach to Evaluating Streetscape and Neighborhood Walkability
| dc.contributor.author | Ackerson, Kristopher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-09-02T18:01:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-09-02T18:01:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-09-02T18:01:24Z | |
| dc.description | Examining committee chair: Marc Schlossberg | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this project is three-fold: 1) to evaluate neighborhood walkability near middle schools in terms of infrastructure amenities that enhance pedestrian safety; 2) to evaluate walkability using streetscape characteristics to augment neighborhood scale variables; and 3) to compare student transportation behavior with the walkability safety characteristics identified for four neighborhoods in Springfield and Bend, Oregon. Using a pedestrian environment audit instrument with mobile GIS technology and a household transportation survey of middle school students, the results presented in this paper provide a micro- as well as macro-scale analysis of neighborhood walkability and pedestrian safety. GIS software was used to evaluate the spatial distribution of land-use types, street and intersection densities and characteristics, and student routes to school. | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/1286 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.subject | Walkability | en |
| dc.subject | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | en |
| dc.subject | Pedestrian areas | en |
| dc.subject | Middle school students -- Transportation | en |
| dc.title | A GIS Approach to Evaluating Streetscape and Neighborhood Walkability | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |