Abstract
While improvements of walking environments have been increasingly expected as a measure to solve problems caused by motorization, it is challenging to encourage behavioural changes to walking. This research aims to explore the characteristics of virtual-experimental walkability evaluation by introducing VR to internationally evaluating walking environments with various walking needs. First, from a literature review, the evaluation indicators of walking needs are sorted out along with the characteristics of visualisation tools. Then, the experiment of VR evaluation for walking environments is conducted to identify the advantages of VR tools for visualisation. Finally, the possibility of VR application to promoting walking is examined by evaluating various international walking environments and exploring the perception structure of the evaluation.
