Parent Safety Perceptions of Child Walking Routes.

Walking rates to school remain low for U.S. children in large part due to parent concern for child safety.

Refining The Grain: Using Resident-Based Walkability Audits To Better Understand Walkable Urban Form.

Researchers use measures of street connectivity to assess neighborhood walkability and many studies show a relationship between neighborhood design and walking activity. Yet, the core of those connectivity measures are based on constructs designed for analyzing automobile mobility - the street network - not pedestrian movement. This paper examines the effect of a finer grained characterization of street connectivity and illustrates the idea using parent ratings of street and intersection walkability for children throughout a suburban school district in Oregon.