{"id":47726,"date":"2025-05-19T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/2025\/05\/analysing-the-determinants-of-perceived-walkability-and-its-effects-on-walking\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:01:39","slug":"analysing-the-determinants-of-perceived-walkability-and-its-effects-on-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/05\/analysing-the-determinants-of-perceived-walkability-and-its-effects-on-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tra.2025.104498\">Analysing the determinants of perceived walkability, and its effects on walking<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Anna-Lena van der Vlugt, Janina Welsch, Noriko Otsuka &#8211; scientists from the research group \u201cMobility and Space\u201d &#8211; have published an article in the journal \u201cTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice\u201d. It presents the results of one of the first transportation studies analysing the determinants of perceived walkability and how it affects walking behaviour. The results show that perceived walkability is mainly affected by walking attitudes and that perceived walkability has an impact on walking frequency, walking distance and walking duration. It is therefore important for policy makers and urban planners to increase perceived walkability levels to stimulate walking, thereby improving physical activity and the liveability of neighbourhoods. For further studies, it is also suggested to analyse the relationship between perceived and objectively measured walkability in greater detail and to investigate the applied SPWS (Short Perceived Walkability Scale; compact scale for measuring perceived walkability), its determinants and the results of walking in other contexts as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tra.2025.104498\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tra.2025.104498<\/a>. Further current selected papers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/professional-publications\/selected-papers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Analysing the determinants of perceived walkability, and its effects on walking - ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/05\/analysing-the-determinants-of-perceived-walkability-and-its-effects-on-walking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Analysing the determinants of perceived walkability, and its effects on walking - ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/05\/analysing-the-determinants-of-perceived-walkability-and-its-effects-on-walking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-19T13:11:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-23T13:01:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ils-fachpublikation-beitraege.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ils-admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Analysing the determinants of perceived walkability, and its effects on walking.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Anna-Lena van der Vlugt, Janina Welsch, Noriko Otsuka - scientists from the research group \u201cMobility and Space\u201d - have published an article in the journal \u201cTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice\u201d. 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