Online versus in-person comparison of Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) assessments: reliability of alternate methods

Phillips, Christine B.; Engelberg, Jessa K.; Geremia, Carrie M.; Zhu, Wenfei; Kurka, Jonathan M.; Cain, Kelli L.; Sallis, James F.; Conway, Terry L.; Adams, Marc A.

doi:10.1186/s12942-017-0101-0

International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 2 Mean of all segments for each route scale and valence scores (n = 120) and cul-de-sac (n = 16) scale and valence scores

From: Online versus in-person comparison of Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) assessments: reliability of alternate methods

Score name	Possible range	Individual items	Inter-rater agreement (ICC)	Confidence interval (CI)	Rater	Mean	(SD)	Percent without feature (%)
Street segments: Positive characteristics
Building height-setback	0–6	Mean of average building height (feet) to average setback (feet) ratio	ICC: 0.56	(0.42, 0.67)	On the ground	1.06	0.47	7.5
Building height-setback	0–6		ICC: 0.56	(0.42, 0.67)	Online (St view)	1.01	0.45	8.3
Building height/road width plus setback ratio	0–3	Mean of average building Height (feet) to Average Road Width (feet) + Average Setback (feet) ratio	ICC: 0.05	(−0.13, 0.23)	On the ground	0.00	0.03	98.3
Building height/road width plus setback ratio	0–3		ICC: 0.05	(−0.13, 0.23)	Online (St view)	0.02	0.12	95.8
Buffer	0–2	Mean of buffer presence and buffer width	ICC: 0.89	(0.84, 0.92)	On the ground	0.60	0.83	60
Buffer	0–2	Mean of buffer presence and buffer width	ICC: 0.89	(0.84, 0.92)	Online (St view)	0.67	0.84	54.2
Bike infrastructure	0–2	Mean of presence of a marked bicycle lane	ICC: 0.85	(0.79, 0.89)	On the ground	0.45	0.76	74.2
Bike infrastructure	0–2	Mean of presence of a marked bicycle lane	ICC: 0.85	(0.79, 0.89)	Online (St view)	0.37	0.71	69.2
Trees	0–5	Mean of trees along sidewalk, even or irregular spacing, shade coverage	ICC: 0.66	(0.54, 0.75)	On the ground	1.96	1.01	3.3
Trees	0–5		ICC: 0.66	(0.54, 0.75)	Online (St view)	2.11	0.95	0.8
Sidewalk	0–3	Mean of sidewalk presence, width of sidewalk, sidewalk continuous	ICC: 0.85	(0.79, 0.89)	On the ground	2.77	0.93	6.7
Sidewalk	0–3		ICC: 0.85	(0.79, 0.89)	Online (St view)	2.72	0.94	7.5
Shortcut	0–1	Presence of an informal path (shortcut) connecting to something else	ICC: 0.65	(0.58, 0.71)	On the ground	0.10	0.31	89.6
Shortcut	0–1		ICC: 0.65	(0.58, 0.71)	Online (St view)	0.08	0.28	91.6
Street segments: Valence and overall
Positive	0–25	Mean of positive subscales (building height-setback, sidewalk, buffers, bike infrastructure, trees, shortcut)	ICC: 0.82	(0.75, 0.87)	On the ground	4.21	1.80	0.8
Positive	0–25		ICC: 0.82	(0.75, 0.87)	Online (St view)	4.26	1.82	1.7

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