*** Amsterdam on foot Designing a city-specific walkability index through a participatory approach *** 
Author: Matias Cardoso
Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology.
AMS Institute
Wageningen University & Research
Contact Information: matiascardoso@outlook.com

***General Introduction*** This dataset encompasses the GIS outcomes of the thesis "Amsterdam on Foot - Designing a city-specific walkability index through a participatory approach." The study's focus is on collaboratively crafting a tool to gauge the walkability of each street segment in Amsterdam. This involved a mixed methods approach combining qualitative and quantitative techniques to assign significance weights to various street attributes, identified as influential for walkability by experts, advocates, and designers in Amsterdam's active mobility and public space sectors. The data for the calculation of the scores for Amsterdam was sourced from OpenStreetMap, the Amsterdam Open Data portal, the Dutch BGT portal, the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, and Rijkswaterstaat. This dataset, presented as a GeoPackage, is compatible with standard GIS software.
***Description of the data in this data set*** This dataset encompasses information regarding each walkable street segment within Amsterdam's municipal limits, according to its 2021 boundaries. A street segment refers to a portion of a street that is 50 meters or shorter in length. The scoring system is contextual to Amsterdam, meaning that the street segment exhibiting the highest occurrence of a specific characteristic receives 100 points, while the segment with the lowest occurrence receives 0 points.

Columns of the dataset: 
ID: Unique identifier of the street segment
Walkability Score: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.

Landscape: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights for Landscape found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.

Traffic Safety: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights for Traffic Safety found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.

Proximity: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights for Proximity found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.

Crime Safety: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights for Crime Safety found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.

Infrastructure: Score (from 0 to 100) obtained by the street segment when combining all the relevant characteristics and weights for Infrastructure found by the “Amsterdam on Foot” research.



