Artigo
How urban form promotes walkability?
Registro en:
BARROS, Ana Paula; MARTÍNEZ, Luis Miguel; Viegas, José Manuel. How urban form promotes walkability?. In: WORLD CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORT RESEARCH, 2016, Shangai. Anais... Shangai: Transportation Research Procedia, 2016.
Autor
Barros, Ana Paula
Martínez, Luis Miguel
Viegas, José Manuel
Institución
Resumen
This paper presents the results of a part of a doctorate thesis whose aim is to check how the form of spaces interferes in
displacements on foot. The methodology here presented is only part of what was carried out in order to answer such questions.
Therefore, in order to find out which factors interfere in generating trips in three neighborhoods with distinct urban forms
(organic, orthogonal and contemporary), the model of trip generation by people counting was used. It was verified that the
presence of a subway station (which was present in only one of the three neighborhoods), the urban form (represented by the
integration index) and the presence of stairs and slopes are the most relevant factors, that is, the ones which better explain the
presence of people in the points for counting in the three neighborhood under study.