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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Landsc Urban Plan. 2017 Jul 14;167:240–248. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.014

Table 2.

Agreement on segment subscales between virtual raters with different familiarities of the environment (n=141)

Subscale Label Number
of Items
Mean
(SD)
Virtual Toola
In-field Toolb
ICC
(95%
Confidence
Interval)
Range of
Item Kappas
or ICCs (%
Agreement)
ICC Range of Item
Kappas or ICCs
(% Agreement)
Positive Subscale
Building Height and Setbacks Smallest and largest setbacks and building height 3 1.01 0.448 0.232–0.906 0.370 0.522–0.764
(0.49) (0.284–0.586) (65.7%–99.1%) (50.7%–97.5%)
Sidewalk Positive Qualities Sidewalk presence and width 3 2.09 0.360 −0.013–0.865 0.555 0.489–1.000
(0.45) (0.181–0.516) (12.5%–98.1%) (81.8%–100%)
Buffers Buffer presence and width Marked bicycle lane, signage 2 0.45 0.887 0.699–0.971 0.940 0.882–0.919
(0.84) (0.839–0.922) (77.3%–96.3%) (95.3%–96.5%)
Bicycle Infrastructure Street-level windows, building colors and materials 2 0.38 0.724 0.617–0.798 0.855 0.676–0.791
(0.93) (0.621–0.803) (90.7%–96.3%) (97.1%–97.3%)
Building Aesthetics and Design Number and spacing of trees, percent of sidewalk shaded 4 3.20 0.604 0.185–0.578 0.705 0.549–0.629
(1.57) (0.470–0.711) (41.4%–80.2%) (56.4%–80.2%)
Trees Is there an informal path (shortcut) which connects to something else? 3 1.75 0.719 0.247–0.774 0.744 0.540–0.737
(1.26) (0.606–0.804) (51.9%–95.4%) (55.4%–91.6%)
Overall Positive Smallest and largest setbacks and building height 6 9.02 0.797 0.752
Subscales (3.13) (0.709–0.861)
Negative Subscale
Sidewalk Negative Qualities Trip hazard, obstructions in the sidewalk 5 0.28 0.360 0.164–0.862 0.675 0.476–0.796
(0.55) (0.181–0.516) (63.6%–98.0%) (61.5%–93.6%)
Building Height: Road Width and Setback Ratio Smallest and largest setbacks, building height, and road width 3 0.20 0.588 0.435–0.960 0.614 0.522–0.808
(0.07) (0.449–0.698) (38.0%–95.4%) (36.4%–96.2%)
Negative Street Design/width Traffic lanes, one-way or two-way 2 1.34 0.897 0.897–1.000 0.706 0.696–0.711
(0.47) (0.854–0.929) (95.4%–100%) (93.8%–99.3%)
Overall Negative Subscale Sum of subscales: Sidewalk negative qualities, building height: road width and setback ratio, negative street design/width 3 1.82 0.364 0.689
subscales (0.73) (0.180–0.522)
Overall Subscales
Overall Segments Score Overall Positive – Overall Negative subscales 8.91 0.733 0.753
(3.07) (0.619–0.816)
a

Measured by Google Earth between virtual raters with different familiarities of the environment.

b

Measured in field between raters with same familiarity of the environment (Millstain RA, Cain KL, Sallis JF, et al. Development, scoring, and reliability of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS). BMC Public Health. 2013 Apr 27;13:403.).