Sponsor
Funding provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Discovery Grant Program, the partners of the Mobilité Chair – the Ville de Montréal, the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), the Ministère des Transports, de la Mobilité durable et de l’Électrification des transports (MTMDET) and the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) – as well as the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT).
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
12-17-2017
Subjects
City planning -- Quebec -- Montreal, Pedestrian areas -- planning, Community life, Urban ecology (Sociology)
Abstract
This paper analyzes the transferability of a composite walkability index, the Pedestrian Index of the Environment (PIE), to the Greater Montréal Area (GMA). The PIE was developed in Portland, Oregon, and is based on proprietary data. It combines six urban form variables into a score ranging from 20 to 100. The measure introduces several methodological refinements which have not been applied concurrently in previous efforts: a wide coverage of the different dimensions of the urban form, together with the use of a distance-based decay function and modelling-based weighing of the variables.
DOI
10.1016/j.trd.2017.08.018
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23486
Citation Details
Lefebvre-Ropars, Gabriel; Morency, Catherine; Singleton, Patrick A.; and Clifton, Kelly J., "Spatial Transferability Assessment of a Composite Walkability Index: The Pedestrian Index of the Environment (PIE)" (2017). Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations. 420.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23486
Description
© 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 57, (December 2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.08.018