Walking and Bicycling
Walking and Bicycling
Walking and Bicycling
Instruments
Anne Vernez Moudon, Chanam Lee
Abstract
Purpose.
This paper reviews existing environmental audit instruments used to capture the
walkability and bikability of environments. The review inventories and evaluates
individual measures of environmental factors used in these instruments. It
synthesizes the current state of knowledge in quantifying the built environment.
The paper provides health promotion professionals an understanding of the
essential aspects of environments influencing walking and bicycling for both
recreational and transportation purposes. It serves as a basis to develop valid and
efficient tools to create activity-friendly communities.
Data Sources.
All instruments to audit physical environments have been included in this review,
considering both recreation- and transportation-related walking and bicycling.
Excluded are general methods devised to estimate walking and cycling trips,
those used in empirical studies on land use and transportation, and research on
walking inside buildings.
Data have been extracted from each instrument using a template of key items
developed for this review. The data were examined for quality assurance among
three experienced researchers.
Data Synthesis.
Major Conclusions.
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