TY - GEN
T1 - A visual analytics approach for assessing pedestrian friendliness of urban environments
AU - Schreck, Tobias
AU - Omer, Itzhak
AU - Bak, Peter
AU - Lerman, Yoav
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - The availability of efficient transportation facilities is vital to the function and development of modern cities. Promoting walking is crucial for supporting livable communities and cities. Assessing the quality of pedestrian facilities and constructing appropriate pedestrian walking facilities are important tasks in public city planning. Additionally, walking facilities in a community affect commercial activities including private investment decisions such as those of retailers. However, analyzing what we call pedestrian friendliness in an urban environment involves multiple data perspectives, such as street networks, land use, and other multivariate observation measurements, and consequently poses significant challenges. In this study, we investigate the effect of urban environment properties on pedestrian movement in different locations in the metropolitan region of Tel Aviv. The first urban area we investigated was the inner city of the Tel Aviv metropolitan region, one of the central regions in Tel Aviv, a city that serves many non-local residents. For simplicity, we refer to this area as Tel Aviv. We also investigated Bat Yam, a small city, whose residents use many of the services of Tel Aviv. We apply an improved tool for visual analysis of the correlation between multiple independent and one dependent variable in geographical context. We use the tool to investigate the effect of functional and topological properties on the volume of pedestrian movement. The results of our study indicate that these two.
AB - The availability of efficient transportation facilities is vital to the function and development of modern cities. Promoting walking is crucial for supporting livable communities and cities. Assessing the quality of pedestrian facilities and constructing appropriate pedestrian walking facilities are important tasks in public city planning. Additionally, walking facilities in a community affect commercial activities including private investment decisions such as those of retailers. However, analyzing what we call pedestrian friendliness in an urban environment involves multiple data perspectives, such as street networks, land use, and other multivariate observation measurements, and consequently poses significant challenges. In this study, we investigate the effect of urban environment properties on pedestrian movement in different locations in the metropolitan region of Tel Aviv. The first urban area we investigated was the inner city of the Tel Aviv metropolitan region, one of the central regions in Tel Aviv, a city that serves many non-local residents. For simplicity, we refer to this area as Tel Aviv. We also investigated Bat Yam, a small city, whose residents use many of the services of Tel Aviv. We apply an improved tool for visual analysis of the correlation between multiple independent and one dependent variable in geographical context. We use the tool to investigate the effect of functional and topological properties on the volume of pedestrian movement. The results of our study indicate that these two.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_20
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_20
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
T3 - Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
SP - 353
EP - 368
BT - Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe
A2 - Bucher, Benedicte
A2 - Vandenbroucke, Danny
A2 - Crompvoets, Joep
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
T2 - 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
Y2 - 14 May 2013 through 17 May 2013
ER -