Pedestrians First: A Tool for Walkable Cities - Entorn Urbà i Salut

Pedestrians First facilitates the understanding and measurement of the characteristics of the physical environment that promote walkability in streets, neighbourhoods and cities.

This set of tools provides relevant criteria and indicators of the built physical public space, and an online questionnaire to assess routes, crossings, visibility, accessibility, connectivity, shade or access to local services, among other indicators.

For each of these indicators, examples of good practice and recommendations are included.

It provides a questionnaire for neighbourhood scale and another adapted to the analysis of a specific street.

Pedestrians First provides multiple resources for a range of actors, including technicians, local government, researchers, or citizens.

It allows the evaluation of a neighbourhood and a specific street.

In some cases, it requires working with interactive maps to perform calculations with which to answer the questionnaire items.

It focuses on aspects of the built physical environment and does not address many factors that limit walkability for members of groups marginalised by their gender, ethnicity, or other factors.