Economic Value of Walkability
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Vol. 1828 (1), 3-11
- https://doi.org/10.3141/1828-01
Abstract
This paper describes ways to evaluate 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 basic mobility, consumer cost savings, cost savings (reduced external costs), efficient land use, community livability, improved fitness and public health, economic development, and support for equity objectives. Current transportation planning practices tend to undervalue walking. More comprehensive analysis techniques, described in this paper, are likely to increase public support for walking and other nonmotorized modes of travel.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Non-motorised modes in transport systems: a multimodal chain perspective for The NetherlandsTransportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2000
- Impervious Surface Coverage: The Emergence of a Key Environmental IndicatorJournal of the American Planning Association, 1996
- The Effects of Traffic Flow on Residential Property ValuesJournal of the American Planning Association, 1980