Reply to how important is a walk score?

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "how important is a walk score?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]From Wikipedia:

Walk Score is a large-scale, public access walkability index that assigns a numerical walkability score to any address in Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.[1]. Other services include a transit score, a custom commute report, and an apartment search that locates potential residences based on commute time. [b]Walk Score “ranks communities nationwide (and soon, globally) based on how many businesses, parks, theaters, schools and other common destinations are within walking distance of any given starting point."[/b][2]  According to the site's creators,"The Walk Score algorithm awards points based on the distance to the closest amenity in each category. If the closest amenity in a category is within .25 miles (or .4 km), we assign the maximum number of points. The number of points declines as the distance approaches 1 mile (or 1.6 km)—no points are awarded for amenities further than 1 mile. Each category is weighted equally and the points are summed and normalized to yield a score from 0–100. The number of nearby amenities is the leading predictor of whether people walk."[8]

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics