Trial reportInternational journal of health geographics2014
Assessing the environmental characteristics of cycling routes to school: a study on the reliability and validity of a Google Street View-based audit.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Measuring Street Built Environments for Children's Use: A Systematic Review of Measurement Tools.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The SPOTLIGHT virtual audit tool: a valid and reliable tool to assess obesogenic characteristics of the built environment.International journal of health geographics · 2014Trial
- Examining streetscape visuals and emotional responses through social media and street view image analysis.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- Perceptions of greenspace and social determinants of health across the life course: The Life Course Sociodemographics and Neighborhood Questionnaire (LSNEQ).Health & place · 2023Article
- Training Computers to See the Built Environment Related to Physical Activity: Detection of Microscale Walkability Features Using Computer Vision.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Validation of desk-based audits using Google Street ViewInternational journal of health geographics · 2022Article
- Assessing Google Street View Image Availability in Latin American Cities.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- Spatial predictive properties of built environment characteristics assessed by drop-and-spin virtual neighborhood auditing.International journal of health geographics · 2020Article
- Expanding Tools for Investigating Neighborhood Indicators of Drug Use and Violence: Validation of the NIfETy for Virtual Street Observation.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Article
- Assessing the micro-scale environment using Google Street View: the Virtual Systematic Tool for Evaluating Pedestrian Streetscapes (Virtual-STEPS).BMC public health · 2019Article
- The linkage between the perception of neighbourhood and physical activity in Guangzhou, China: using street view imagery with deep learning techniques.International journal of health geographics · 2019Article
- Deep mapping gentrification in a large Canadian city using deep learning and Google Street View.PloS one · 2019Article
- Differences in physical environmental characteristics between adolescents' actual and shortest cycling routes: a study using a Google Street View-based audit.International journal of health geographics · 2018Article
- Novel Methods for Environmental Assessment of Pedestrian Injury: Creation and Validation of the Inventory for Pedestrian Safety Infrastructure.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2018Article
- Online versus in-person comparison of Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) assessments: reliability of alternate methods.International journal of health geographics · 2017Article
- Measuring Neighborhood Walkable Environments: A Comparison of Three Approaches.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Using an audit tool (MAPS Global) to assess the characteristics of the physical environment related to walking for transport in youth: reliability of Belgian data.International journal of health geographics · 2016Article
- Using Virtual Street Audits to Understand the Walkability of Older Adults' Route Choices by Gender and Age.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Alcohol in urban streetscapes: a comparison of the use of Google Street View and on-street observation.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Matching study areas using Google Street View: A new application for an emerging technology.Evaluation and program planning · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundGoogle Street View provides a valuable and efficient alternative to observe the physical environment compared to on-site fieldwork. However, studies on the use, reliability and validity of Google Street View in a cycling-to-school context are lacking. We aimed to study the intra-, inter-rater reliability and criterion validity of EGA-Cycling (Environmental Google Street View Based Audit - Cycling to school), a newly developed audit using Google Street View to assess the physical environment along cycling routes to school.
methodsParents (n = 52) of 11-to-12-year old Flemish children, who mostly cycled to school, completed a questionnaire and identified their child's cycling route to school on a street map. Fifty cycling routes of 11-to-12-year olds were identified and physical environmental characteristics along the identified routes were rated with EGA-Cycling (5 subscales; 37 items), based on Google Street View. To assess reliability, two researchers performed the audit. Criterion validity of the audit was examined by comparing the ratings based on Google Street View with ratings through on-site assessments.
resultsIntra-rater reliability was high (kappa range 0.47-1.00). Large variations in the inter-rater reliability (kappa range -0.03-1.00) and criterion validity scores (kappa range -0.06-1.00) were reported, with acceptable inter-rater reliability values for 43% of all items and acceptable criterion validity for 54% of all items.
conclusionsEGA-Cycling can be used to assess physical environmental characteristics along cycling routes to school. However, to assess the micro-environment specifically related to cycling, on-site assessments have to be added.
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