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Economic Value of Walkability
Abstract
There are ways to quantify the value of walking (the activity) and walkability (the quality of walking conditions, including safety, comfort, and convenience). Walking and walkability provide a variety of benefits, including accessibility, consumer cost savings, public cost savings (reduced external costs), more efficient land use, community livability, improved fitness and public health, economic development, and support for equity objectives. Yet current transportation planning practices tend to undervalue walking. More comprehensive analysis techniques are likely to increase public support for walking and other nonmotorized modes of travel.
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“Until recently, analysis of walkability or the quality of the walking environment with respect to safety, comfort, and convenience (Litman, 2003) was typically conducted at a spatially aggregate level, such as census block groups, tax parcels, or buffers around residences (Forsyth et al., 2009;…”
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- Litman, T. A.
- Venue
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-01
- Volume
- 1828
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-11
- ISSN
- 0361-1981 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-4052
- OpenAlex
- W2147854076
- Cited by
- 417
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 12.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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