How is the walkability in your city?

Project Walk&Feel makes great strides

Walking is the most environmentally friendly form of transport, it is socially acceptable and at the same time healthy. This wants to be promoted!

So that people in urban areas also like to walk, the walkability (pedestrian friendliness) must be improved if necessary. But how do you determine this?
Classical methods of traffic research focus on the evaluation of physical characteristics. But the quality of walking is also what people perceive and a result of experiences, attitudes and the interpretation of what they have experienced. Emotions are psychophysical reaction patterns and therefore measurable with smart technology like sensors. Combined with feedback from the test persons, one receives very conclusive information.

Together with our partners, we develop a methodology for assessing the quality of footpaths. For this purpose, pedestrian reactions in concrete traffic situations are recorded and evaluated.
As an expert in the field of traffic and information consolidation as well as the visualization of localized information in maps, we support the analysis of the collected data in this future-oriented project. On the basis of the knowledge gained in this way, walkability can be improved and walking promoted!

Walk&Feel is an FFG-funded project ("Mobility of the Future") and was presented in October at the CIVITAS conference in Graz as well as at the Walkspace conference in Kufstein!

Partners are Technische Universität Wien (Fachbereich Verkehrssystemplanung, IVS), Universität Salzburg (Interfakultärer Fachbereich Geoinformatik, Z_GIS) and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.