32nd GISRUK Conference 2024
Published April 10, 2024 | Version v1
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The Walkable Accessibility Score (WAS): A spatially-granular open- source measure of walkability for the continental US from 1997-2019

Creators

  • 1. National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth University
  • 2. Department of City & Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley
  • 3. Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago
  • 4. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Description

This paper describes a method, with specific parameters, for developing an open-source measure of walkability that can be applied to any set of spatial demand units. Our method compares favorably with existing proprietary measures of walkability. Exploratory analysis of the resulting measure, available for the entire continental US for every year from 1997- 2019, reveals high concentrations of walkability in the dense centres of the largest urban areas.

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