Built Environment and Walking: Short vs. Long Walking Trips

TL;DR

This study differentiates between short and long walking trips and analyzes their unique influencing factors using transportation and land use data, revealing significant density effects and modeling variations in walking share.

Contribution

It introduces a method to distinguish short and long trips and examines their specific influencing factors, which has been limited in previous research.

Findings

Density significantly influences both trip generation sides.

Models explain up to 27.7% variation in walking share.

Short trips show distinct influencing factors compared to long trips.

Abstract

In recent decades, many studies investigated the influencing factors on walking. Although there are lots of finding about these factors, only a few of them conducted to differentiate between short and long walking trips and their associated influencing factors. Current research investigates the impact of the influencing factors on the share of short. To do so, in the first step a proxy between short and long walking trip had been recognized. In this regard, indices mentioned in the literature review are derived from a transportation network database and land use data. According to the results, density in both trip generation sides in short trips is significant. Models are able to describe variation in share of walking up to 0.277 in short return to home walking trips.