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Sidewalk asset management is one of the key means of promoting active recreational and utilitarian travel. Encouraging active travel reduces congestion and promotes physical fitness and healthy lifestyles. To promote active travel, municipalities should make educated design and maintenance decisions regarding their investment into their sidewalk infrastructure. These decisions are supported by understanding and quantifying both the number and severity of sidewalk distresses and understanding which design features promote walking behaviour. Existing studies typically capture the physical and geographical features of a segment of sidewalk and compare these features to observed/reported walking behaviour or expert ratings. These studies do not explicitly capture the trade-offs that pedestrians make when selecting between a set of sidewalks.

This research aims to bridge …