Caminabilidad en las aceras de Madrid
- Tarek Al Shammas
- Francisco Escobar Martínez
- Antonio Guerrero Ortega (coord.)
- Germán Ros Magán (coord.)
- Paloma Ruíz Benito (coord.)
- Francisco Pascual Vives (coord.)
- Cristina Tejedor Martínez (coord.)
- Vanessa Tabernero Magro (coord.)
Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá ; Universidad de Alcalá
ISBN: 978-84-17729-44-8
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 253-261
Congress: Jornadas de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Universidad de Alcalá (7. 2019. Alcalá de Henares)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The walkability is a mean to analyze how the built environment affects the decision making used for walking in a city. It can be used to quantify the factors that encourage pedestrian mobility. This depends on factors such the urban environment they interact with. On the one hand, walkability is related to individual health issues, and on the other, issues of urban transport and sustainability. In addition to factors already used in previous literature, this article adds comfort factors such as noise and available shade. The results are applied to the Centro district of Madrid, especially important since it is the city of Spain with greater population and it is going through a process of transformation to encourage pedestrian mobility.