D'Alessandro Daniela, Appolloni Letizia, Capasso Lorenzo
Department of Civil Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.
Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia.
Epidemiol Prev. 2016 Mar-Apr;40(3-4):237-42. doi: 10.19191/EP16.3-4.P237.090.
A method to evaluate the walkability of an urban neighbourhood based on direct observation has been applied. This tool, called the Walking Suitability Index of the Territory (T-WSI), measures the walkability of every street of an environmental area. It includes 12 weighted indicators, each divided into 4 categories: practicability, safety, urbanity, and pleasantness. Each indicator can obtain one of the following values: excellent (100), good (75), poor (35), bad (0). T-WSI is applied to 12/15 urban neighbourhoods of Rieti, a small city (47,912 inhabitants) located in Lazio Region (Central Italy). The average of T-WSI scores range from 24.2 to 61.2 among urban neighbourhoods. On average, safety and urbanity are the categories which reach very low scores. The T-WSI allows to underline several street criticalities that could hinder walkability and could be a good basis to support public decision-makers about health policy and local development aimed at encouraging physical activity.
一种基于直接观察来评估城市社区步行适宜性的方法已得到应用。这个工具名为“区域步行适宜性指数”（T-WSI），它衡量一个环境区域内每条街道的步行适宜性。它包括12个加权指标，每个指标又分为4个类别：实用性、安全性、城市性和舒适性。每个指标可以获得以下值之一：优秀（100）、良好（75）、较差（35）、差（0）。T-WSI应用于位于意大利中部拉齐奥地区的一个小城市里耶蒂（47,912名居民）的12/15个城市社区。城市社区中T-WSI分数的平均值在24.2到61.2之间。平均而言，安全性和城市性类别得分非常低。T-WSI能够凸显出一些可能阻碍步行适宜性的街道关键问题，并且可以作为一个很好的依据，来支持公共决策者制定有关健康政策以及旨在鼓励体育活动的地方发展政策。
