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The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses

The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses

Luigi La Riccia, Antonio Cittadino, Francesco Fiermonte, Gabriele Garnero, Paola Guerreschi, Franco Vico
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781799872979|ISBN10: 1799872971|EISBN13: 9781799872986
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7297-9.ch017
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La Riccia, Luigi, et al. "The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses." Research Anthology on Digital Transformation, Organizational Change, and the Impact of Remote Work, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 311-331. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7297-9.ch017

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La Riccia, L., Cittadino, A., Fiermonte, F., Garnero, G., Guerreschi, P., & Vico, F. (2021). The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Digital Transformation, Organizational Change, and the Impact of Remote Work (pp. 311-331). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7297-9.ch017

Chicago

La Riccia, Luigi, et al. "The Walkability of the Cities: Improving It Through the Reuse of Available Data and Raster Analyses." In Research Anthology on Digital Transformation, Organizational Change, and the Impact of Remote Work, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 311-331. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7297-9.ch017

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Abstract

The issue of city walkability is nowadays a theme in evidence. The chapter proposes a two-level reasoning. At the city level, the goal is to recognize the parts where actions aimed at improving walkability can be more effective. The second level is more detailed: lacking pedestrian paths' specific graphs, the urban space is modeled through a raster with 1x1 m. cells. Considering a series of criteria, an impedance has been assigned to each cell (i.e., the cost of travelling the cell on foot). This approach is applied to the city of Torino (Italy), but it is largely generalizable. To calculate this impedance, inter alia, the Torino geo-topographic database was used. The elaborations described in this chapter are seen as an aid to stakeholders to reason on city walkability and to compare different points of view in an explicit and articulated way.

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