Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue

Identifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available data often remains too spatially and temporally coarse, which constrains an...

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Autores: Rames, Clément, Rhoads, Daniel, Meseguer Artola, Antoni, Lozano, Sergi, Borge Holthoefer, Javier, Solé Ribalta, Albert
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Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Palavra-chave:Urbanisme
Zones de vianants
Rehabilitació urbana
City planning
Pedestrian zones
Urban renewal
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spelling Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissueRames, ClémentRhoads, DanielMeseguer Artola, AntoniLozano, SergiBorge Holthoefer, JavierSolé Ribalta, AlbertUrbanismeZones de vianantsRehabilitació urbanaCity planningPedestrian zonesUrban renewalIdentifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available data often remains too spatially and temporally coarse, which constrains analysis. This paper leverages high resolution data from over 200 pedestrian count sensors, placed along Barcelona’s commercial areas, providing a detailed understanding of how walking volume has evolved over the past five years, how it varies across neighborhoods, and which socioeconomic and urban attributes influence it. We find that while overall pedestrian traffic has increased, a neighborhood-scale analysis reveals a nuanced picture of fluctuations, including increases, declines, and periodic patterns. The use of global regression models allows us to identify seven key urban factors that shape pedestrian mobility. Subsequently moving the analysis to spatially-aware regression models, we identify the spatial non-stationarity of these factors across the city, indicating the presence of distinct behavioral groups within the urban population. The detailed spatial resolution of our findings provides municipal decision-makers with insights for implementing precise interventions and continually evaluating their effects. Moreover, monitoring pedestrian traffic before and after urban initiatives, while adjusting for seasonal, daily, and time-of-day variations, can yield critical insights for developing pedestrian-oriented urban environments.Elsevier2025202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion14 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/224948Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105655Cities, 2025, vol. 158https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105655cc-by-nc-nd (c) Rames et al., 2025http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/2249482026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
title Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
spellingShingle Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
Rames, Clément
Urbanisme
Zones de vianants
Rehabilitació urbana
City planning
Pedestrian zones
Urban renewal
title_short Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
title_full Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
title_fullStr Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
title_full_unstemmed Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
title_sort Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rames, Clément
Rhoads, Daniel
Meseguer Artola, Antoni
Lozano, Sergi
Borge Holthoefer, Javier
Solé Ribalta, Albert
author Rames, Clément
author_facet Rames, Clément
Rhoads, Daniel
Meseguer Artola, Antoni
Lozano, Sergi
Borge Holthoefer, Javier
Solé Ribalta, Albert
author_role author
author2 Rhoads, Daniel
Meseguer Artola, Antoni
Lozano, Sergi
Borge Holthoefer, Javier
Solé Ribalta, Albert
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Urbanisme
Zones de vianants
Rehabilitació urbana
City planning
Pedestrian zones
Urban renewal
topic Urbanisme
Zones de vianants
Rehabilitació urbana
City planning
Pedestrian zones
Urban renewal
description Identifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available data often remains too spatially and temporally coarse, which constrains analysis. This paper leverages high resolution data from over 200 pedestrian count sensors, placed along Barcelona’s commercial areas, providing a detailed understanding of how walking volume has evolved over the past five years, how it varies across neighborhoods, and which socioeconomic and urban attributes influence it. We find that while overall pedestrian traffic has increased, a neighborhood-scale analysis reveals a nuanced picture of fluctuations, including increases, declines, and periodic patterns. The use of global regression models allows us to identify seven key urban factors that shape pedestrian mobility. Subsequently moving the analysis to spatially-aware regression models, we identify the spatial non-stationarity of these factors across the city, indicating the presence of distinct behavioral groups within the urban population. The detailed spatial resolution of our findings provides municipal decision-makers with insights for implementing precise interventions and continually evaluating their effects. Moreover, monitoring pedestrian traffic before and after urban initiatives, while adjusting for seasonal, daily, and time-of-day variations, can yield critical insights for developing pedestrian-oriented urban environments.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105655
Cities, 2025, vol. 158
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105655
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