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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 53-433
Full Name: Nikolaos Eliou
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos
Country: GREECE
Tel: +30-6945794169
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E-mail address: neliou@civ.uth.gr
Other E-mails: neliou@ath.forthnet.gr
Title of the Paper: Grading methodology of the pedestrian urban road environment
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Athanasios Galanis, Nikolaos Eliou
Email addresses of all the authors: atgalanis@civ.uth.gr, neliou@civ.uth.gr
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: The improvement of pedestrian safety, mobility and convenience is an important step for the promotion of sustainable mobility in urban areas. This study presents the grading process and walkability score of the pedestrian urban environment of six selected roads in the city of Volos, Greece. The roads were characterized as main, collector or local urban arterials, located inside or close to the center of the city. Four suitably trained auditors walked across the streets and using a questionnaire graded independently the pedestrian urban road environment features in each road segment and crosswalk. The auditors' team included three undergraduate students as the team members and a PhD candidate as the team leader. The questionnaire included 9 questions for the road segments and 6 questions for the crosswalks. The rating scale varied between 1 (awful) and 5 (very good) score. We calculated the average score of each question for the road segments and crosswalks across e!
ach street. Furthermore, we calculated the walkability score for each road segment and crosswalk and as an average the total walkability score of each street. The innovation of our study was that we graded separately the walkability features of each road segment and crosswalk, concluding to a total walkability score of a street as a synthesis of the auditors' grades.
Keywords: Walkability score, Pedestrian, Auditor, Road segment, Crosswalk, Sustainability
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