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Smart and Equitable Parks: Quantifying Returns on Investments Based on Probabilistic Mobility-Dependent Correlates of Park Usage Using Cyber-Physical System Technologies
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2022-01-01
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:Parks are integral to the success of any vibrant city and have long been touted as engines of economic growth that also improve public health, clean the air, manage stormwater, and enable patrons to commune with nature while enjoying a rich set of social experiences within their community. Today, 165 parks are maintained in Pittsburgh ranging from small neighborhood parks to large greenways. Unfortunately, the financial constraints of the city have challenged its ability to maintain its parks; Pittsburgh parks are underinvested in comparison to both regional and aspirational peers. A key challenge for local governments is to develop and maintain parks and other public goods in ways that equitably distribute benefits to health, well-being, livability, accessibility to essential services, and the economy. This is critical because in areas where essential services are unevenly distributed across a community, parks and greenways often lead to a bifurcation: they either serve as barriers that result in social polarization, or serve as enabling public facilities that connect citizens in under-resourced areas to their wider communities and services; the polarizing or unifying nature of parks is heavily dependent on the configuration and health of surrounding mobility services. The overarching goal of this work is to explore urban park use and correlates of use (measured by time-dependent accessibility) in order to bring to light ways in which city officials and planners can quantify data-driven returns on potential investments to parks and mobility services and implement changes that will more equitably distribute these benefits.
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