Abstract
New strategies to improve the quality of urban pedestrian environments are becoming increasingly important in sustainable city planning. This trend has been driven by the advantages that active mobility provides in terms of health, social, and environmental aspects. Our work explores the idea of walkability. This concept refers to the friendliness of the urban environment to pedestrian traffic. We propose a framework based on the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology to rank streets in terms of walkability levels. The city of Lisbon (Portugal) is the location of the streets under examination. Findings confirmed the framework’s replicability and suggested the possibility of this strategy being used as a support tool for designing urban policies.
Highlights
Access to urban places and resources by walking is one of the most important features that must be considered when decision-makers (DM) undertake sustainable planning [1,2].This attribute is closely linked to improving communities’ quality of life, such as health, social, and environmental benefits [3,4,5]
Results analysis: This step provided the generation of the PROMETHEE’s complete ranking of alternatives and the evaluation of the rankings to determine the best actions for the case study
The study outcomes are presented in three visualizations: ranking flow table, PROMETHEE Diamond, and PROMETHEE Rainbow
Summary
Access to urban places and resources by walking is one of the most important features that must be considered when decision-makers (DM) undertake sustainable planning [1,2]. This attribute is closely linked to improving communities’ quality of life, such as health, social, and environmental benefits [3,4,5]. Long-distance travel, notably on an international scale, has been banned or restricted to restrict the spread of the virus. On a short-distance scale, mobility has been controlled in order to contain coronavirus infections in urban areas. More active and non-motorized means of transportation have been chosen by many city dwellers as the principal method to move about [12,13]
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