Quality assessment of open urban spaces based on the integral indicator of comfort in the urban environment.

Abstract

The paper presents a method of point automated assessment of a person’s comfort in an urban environment. A distinctive feature of the developed method is that the peculiarities of the individual’s perception of the main factors that determine the comfort level at each of the given urban space points are taken into account when evaluating the indicators of the comfort of the urban environment. This approach makes it possible to increase the correspondence of the obtained estimates to the goals and objectives of urban environment development and the significance of their use in managing the development of territories. The use of open data within the proposed method ensures the promptness of calculating urban space quality indicators. The implementation of the developed method is based on open source software. In the framework of testing the proposed method, the integral indicator of comfort was calculated and visualized for the territory of Vasilievskiy Island in St. Petersburg.