Development and Validation of a Google Street View Pedestrian Safety Audit Tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessing aspects of intersections that may affect the risk of pedestrian injury is critical to developing child pedestrian injury prevention strategies, but visiting intersections to inspect them is costly and time-consuming. Several research teams have validated the use of Google Street View to conduct virtual neighborhood audits that remove the need for field teams to conduct in-person audits.

Methods

We developed a 38-item virtual audit instrument to assess intersections for pedestrian injury risk and tested it on intersections within 700 m of 26 schools in New York City using the Computer-assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (CANVAS) with Google Street View imagery.

Results

Six trained auditors tested this instrument for inter-rater reliabili

SUBMITTER: Mooney SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7002252 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature