@unpublished{theses_frw4428,
            year = {2023},
           title = {Assessing the alignment of objective and perceived walkability measures with reported favourite walking routes},
          author = {Marijn Geurts},
             url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4428/},
        abstract = {The study?s purpose was to examine the extent to which the NEWS-CFA questionnaire and the Walkability Index (WAI) relate to residents' Reported Favourite Walking Routes (RFWR), the agreement between WAI and NEWS-CFA, the spatial distribution of high-scoring neighbourhoods based on WAI, NEWS-CFA, and residents' RFWR, and key contributing factors to high and low objective and perceived walkability. Methods: For 105 neighbourhoods the objective walkability was assessed, using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to calculate the WAI. Perceived walkability was assessed using the NEWS-CFA and analysed using GIS. Secondary RFWR data were obtained and analysed using GIS. Results: The WAI showed a distinct radial pattern in which the neighbourhoods in which the top scoring WAI decile consisted of central neighbourhoods, whereas the lowest scoring WAI decile consisted of outer neighbourhoods. The NEWS-CFA showed a more dispersed pattern regarding scoring patterns, with only two neighbourhoods overlapping with the WAI in terms of high walkability. The RFWR showed a similar radial pattern to the WAI, and with four out of ten overlapping neighbourhoods in the highest decile, it showed alignment with the WAI. Conclusions: Objective and perceived walkability showed substantially different outcomes, in which the WAI showed the highest agreement with the RFWR, suggesting that the WAI can potentially be a useful tool for predicting the density of RFWR in neighbourhoods.}
}