Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

Very cool to see walkable cities being one of the top reasons (#4 on her list) this woman cites as to why she left the US and moved to Norway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVwlDYk6l8

I'm sure @notjustbikes can understand :D

Our #NetAScore family is growing: new paper on #Walkability by Petra Stutz, Dana Kaziyeva, Christoph Traun, @just_mobility and myself now published #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.3390/su17083634.

Highlights are:
𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 walkability assessment
Assessment results 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 by 660 participants
Based on 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚
Fully 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 and 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 workflow
All code is available 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞

bruh. https://atotb.org/blog/houston-silently-guts-bike-projects-in-tip-amendments-including-11th-alabama-and-columbia-tap-extension/

Interested in #walkability?
Attending #AGILE2025?

Join our workshop on June 10 to explore methods in walkability and pedestrian accessibility assessment.

Submission deadline to present your own research: 31 Mar 2025
Info: https://heigit.org/events/call-for-participation-walking-the-x-min-city-methods-and-implementations-to-assess-walkability-and-pedestrian-accessibility-workshop-at-the-agile-conference/

Hey Toronto! Make good trouble. I wish I could join you (but I'm in Madagascar).

HT Reddit u/Marslettuce

Zawsze chciałem to namalować ;-)

OpenStreeMap i wszystkie drogi / chodniki / ścieżki oznaczone jako dostępne dla pieszych :)

#Cars are a #spatial problem!
#Walkability could be easily improved by fixing the small, nasty but ubiquitous issues of daily urban life.
Reclaiming space that was dedicated to #pedestrians.

Great old video about a driver being judged in the afterlife for his "normal" but really irresponsible driving. His guardian angel finally got exhausted and slipped up.

Looking at the clock showing the growing count of traffic accidents and deaths, he asks the judge, "why don't you stop it?!"

The judge summarizes how the driver was generally an average driver, and how every driver is dangerous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZQgmZUdCjw

“It won’t be long before children won’t have any rights at all to the street.”

How a century-old traffic policy made streets deadly for pedestrians
https://www.fastcompany.com/91267013/100-years-ago-l-a-enacted-traffic-policies-that-prioritized-cars-over-pedestrians-streets-have-never-been-the-same

The Rosa Parks of Jaywalking

On This Day 100 years ago: Electra Lynne was arrested for violating LA's newly enacted traffic ordinance that prioritized cars over people.

HT LinkedIn Peter Norton
Attn @notjustbikes

Most of the problems people have with snow are really problems with car dependency. Driving is already dangerous on a good day, and even more dangerous on a snowy road.

Eliminate the need to drive, and you eliminate the danger. Walkability and rail transit are the answer.

Maps of #walkability in USA cities

https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/12/do-you-live-in-15-minute-city.html

If roads ended as frequently as sidewalks, people would be in an uproar.

Suburbs and most rural areas are not the "green open spaces" we imagine them to be. The built space is mostly concrete and miserable.

Do you walk anywhere? Do you cycle anywhere? Or do you spent every moment outside a building in a car?

Did you know the EPA has a #walkability index for every U.S. community? Explore an interactive map showcasing walkability across the nation, created by Bailie Wynbelt, a winner of the #UniversityofArizona Libraries 2023 #DataVisualization Challenge. Dive into the map here: https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.22732586. Image: Bailie Wynbelt (2023), CC-BY 4.0. #OpenData #Visualization #universityofArizona