Assessment of the Quality of Urban Spaces in the Context of Child-friendly Mobility

Stark, Juliane and Neuhauser, Herbert and Weber, Cornelia (2021) Assessment of the Quality of Urban Spaces in the Context of Child-friendly Mobility. CITIES 20.50 – Creating Habitats for the 3rd Millennium: Smart – Sustainable – Climate Neutral. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2021, 26th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 101-110. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Child-friendly urban spaces promote safe, independent and active mobility of children. This paper explores which indicators can be used to assess the quality of urban spaces in the context of child-friendly mobility. For this purpose, indicators from literature, guidelines etc. are collected. In total, 77 indicators are identified, described in terms of their relevance for child-friendly mobility and divided into four categories: (i) traffic situation and traffic conditions, (ii) urban space - infrastructure, (iii) urban space - amenities and other conditions, and (iv) other. For each indicator, very good (grade 1) and very poor conditions (grade 5) with regard to the quality of urban spaces in the context of child-friendly mobility are defined. A weighting is applied to evaluate the indicators according to their relevance for child-friendly urban spaces. In addition, a (more user-friendly) reduced set of 30 indicators is developed. The full catalogue of indicators, the subset and the associated evaluation scheme were used for an on-site inspection of a road section in the city of Vienna. The road section is also inventoried "digitally" based on geodata to analyze to what extent freely available geodata can be used to conduct the assessment without being on-site. By comparing the results (full set versus sub-set as well as manual versus digital assessment), the user-friendliness of the catalogue(s), the possibilities and limitations of a digital assessment of urban spaces in the context of child-friendly mobility are shown. The results show that processed indicator sets are suitable for the evaluation of the quality of urban spaces. In general, it can be stated that the results of the manual assessment agree very well with the entire catalog of indicators and with the shortened indicator set. The digital evaluation with indicator set also leads to comparable results, although outliers can also be identified for many "non-assessable" indicators. Due to a lack of data availability or quality, a (partially) automated digital evaluation is technically feasible, but many indicators have to be analysed or interpreted in-depth, which contradicts an automated evaluation. In the future, an automated evaluation of the quality of urban spaces in the context of child-friendly mobility could be possible and therefore offer a need for further research.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	child-friendly mobility, transport planning, urban spaces, indicators, children
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2021 17:03
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2021 17:16
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/738

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