Identifying individual priorities for walking infrastructure investments: A Best-Worst Scaling approach.

Albahlal, Fahad and Potoglou, Dimitris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3060-7674 2025. Identifying individual priorities for walking infrastructure investments: A Best-Worst Scaling approach. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

The built environment significantly influences individuals' propensity to walk, prompting local authorities to allocate financial resources for its improvement. Organisations overseeing the built environment have created audit tools as standards to evaluate pathways and highlight developments to facilitate active travel. Using these audit tools as a foundation, this study developed 21 walking investment-relevant factors that were embedded into a preference-based elicitation approach known as Best-Worst Scaling (BWS). We report findings from a UK-wide of sample 364 of adults aged 18 years or older. Data was analysed using aggregate (counting) and disaggregated (regression) approaches. Both approaches confirmed that footpath provision, footpath condition, lighting, footpath width, and buffer zone were top-five priority areas for investment. The instrument is transferable across many different cultural and country contexts enabling international comparisons and further refinements by academics as well as policy makers.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0264-2751
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 December 2025
Date of Acceptance:	9 December 2025
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2025 12:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183210

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