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

The overall goal is 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, walking-related attitudes and travel satisfaction.

It aims to identify key drivers for and obstacles to walking in different urban neighbourhoods, by improving data collection and analysis methods for exploring the links between objective, subjective and perceived accessibility.

ICT-based tools will be adapted for citizen-involvement in assessment of walking routes in relation to important amenities and public transport stops.

The research is carried out in close collaboration with local stakeholders in Genoa, Dortmund and Gothenburg, in order to identify local solutions and general recommendations for improving walkability to support walking as a zero-emission, sustainable and active transport mode