Walkable Urban Neighbourhoods - Freeing up Potential for Sustainable and Active Travel by Improving Walking and its Connections with Public Transport

WalkUrban的总体目标是更好地了解当地的可达性和城市步行性，从而释放步行的潜力。该项目通过对客观、主观和感知步行可达性以及步行相关态度和旅行满意度的创新分析，将定量和定性相结合。它旨在确定在不同城市社区行走的主要驱动因素和障碍。该研究将与三个欧洲城市（热那亚、多特蒙德和哥德堡）的当地利益相关者密切合作进行。WalkUrban旨在改进数据收集和分析方法，以探索客观、主观和感知可达性之间的联系。基于信息通信技术的工具将用于评估与重要设施和公共交通站点相关的选定步行路线。市民和其他利益相关者成员可以在智能手机等手持设备上使用这些工具，从而通过自我评估社区的步行性来参与实地工作。该项目的最终目标是确定改善步行性的当地解决方案，并提出一般性建议，以支持步行作为城市地区零排放、可持续和主动的交通方式。

The overall goal of WalkUrban is to come to a better understanding of local accessibility and urban walkability in order to free up the potential for walking. The project combines quantitative and qualitative methods through innovative analyses of objective, subjective and perceived walking accessibility as wellas walking-related attitudes and travel satisfaction. It aims to identify key drivers for and obstacles to walking in different urban neighbourhoods. The research will be carried out in close collaboration with local stakeholders in three European cities (Genoa, Dortmund and Gothenburg). WalkUrban aims toimprove data collection and analysis methods for exploring the links between objective, subjective and perceived accessibility. ICT-based tools will be adapted for the assessment of selected walking routes in relation to important amenities and public transport stops. Citizens and other stakeholder memberscan use the tools on hand-held devices like smartphones and can thus participate in the fieldwork by self-assessing the walkability of their neighbourhoods. The ultimate aim of the project is to identify local solutions for improving walkability alongside general recommendations in order to support walking as azero-emission, sustainable and active transport mode in urban areas.