From: Development, scoring, and reliability of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS)
Microscale section | Description |
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Route | •Approximately ¼ mile from a participant’s home toward a predetermined destination. |
•Included components of land use and destinations, streetscape, aesthetics and social environment | |
•Consisted of varying numbers of segments and crossings within the ¼ mile. | |
Segment | •A section of a street between two crossings. |
•If street name changed, a new segment started. | |
•There were up to 8 segments per route. | |
Crossing | •A crossing occurred when the rater went through an intersection, whether a pedestrian crossing existed or not. |
•There were up to five crossings per route. | |
Cul-de-sac | •A cul-de-sac or dead-end street had to be within 400 feet of a participant’s home. |
•The cul-de-sac was usually (but not always) the dead-end part of the participant’s street. | |
•There were up to two cul-de-sacs per route. |