Urban Livability Research and a Pollution Emission Case Study in Delft

At present, many studies have begun to focus on evaluating urban accessibility and livability, which can be a series of great guidance for future urban planning considering residents’ personal perceptions of various living aspects. It can be observed from the existing literature that urban accessibility has a mature evaluation system, considering travel distance, trip purpose, travel time, individual’s perceived utility, and other constraints. However, the existing studies review urban livability from many very different directions, and no consolidated concept is proposed or concluded. This makes the evaluation of urban livability hardly provide a comprehensive understanding of the concept of urban livability. In this case, this additional research aims to propose a general framework describing the urban livability concept and its connotation. Besides, several indicators shall be selected from this framework to be quantified and calculated so that there could be a specific quantitative method for evaluating urban livability based on this framework.Civil Engineering | Transport and Plannin