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Redefining Planning Methods and Measures for Disadvantaged Populations: Developing, Testing, and Deploying a Toolkit for Collecting Qualitative Pedestrian Environments Data (QPED)
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2024-06-01
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Alternative Title:Developing, Testing, and Deploying a Toolkit for Collecting Qualitative Pedestrian Environments Data (QPED)
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:Traditional walkability metrics often overlook important differences across socioeconomic and sociocultural contexts. The Qualitative Pedestrian Environments Data (QPED) toolkit was developed to address these limitations. This toolkit, created through an iterative, community-informed process, includes materials and protocols for data collection, entry, coding, and analysis. Initial data collection in predominantly Mexican-American neighborhoods in Tucson highlighted the importance of social environment factors such as community identity and social networks. The research team used QPED to conduct 706 on-street intercept interviews, capturing nuanced perspectives and achieving response rates between 50% and 70%. Key findings revealed significant differences in perceptions of walkability between Hispanic/Latino and white non-Hispanic neighborhoods, emphasizing social interactions and community identity in the former and physical infrastructure in the latter. The cost-effective QPED toolkit, successfully deployed across multiple cities, offers valuable insights into pedestrian environments and is publicly available online. This toolkit helps provide a more nuanced understanding of pedestrian environments than current data collection instruments and, in the case of our research, highlights the importance of social factors.
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