'The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses'
| Autor: | Luigi La Riccia, Antonio Cittadino, Francesco Fiermonte, Gabriele Garnero, Paola Guerreschi, Franco Vico |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine Cost Distance Open Data Walkability Indices Cost Raster 030229 sport sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Gis Open Data Cost Raster Cost Surface Cumulative Cost Cost Distance Geo-Topographic Municipal Database Walkability Indices Gis Cost Surface Cumulative Cost Geo-Topographic Municipal Database |
| Popis: | The issue of city walkability is nowadays a theme in evidence. The chapter proposes a two-level reasoning. At the city level, the goal is to recognize the parts where actions aimed at improving walkability can be more effective. The second level is more detailed: lacking pedestrian paths' specific graphs, the urban space is modeled through a raster with 1x1 m. cells. Considering a series of criteria, an impedance has been assigned to each cell (i.e., the cost of travelling the cell on foot). This approach is applied to the city of Torino (Italy), but it is largely generalizable. To calculate this impedance, inter alia, the Torino geo-topographic database was used. The elaborations described in this chapter are seen as an aid to stakeholders to reason on city walkability and to compare different points of view in an explicit and articulated way. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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