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Personal space, evasive movement and pedestrian level of service

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posted on 2024-11-01, 17:36 authored by Sangyoup Kim, Jaisung Choi, Sungkyu Kim, Richard TayRichard Tay
This study proposed a behavioral theory-based approach to better assess pedestrian levels of service for sidewalks, using the concepts of personal space and pedestrian evasive movements. Data from pedestrian interviews and video recordings at 28 commercial, residential, and leisure locations were used to analyze the effects of pedestrian movements on pedestrian perceived levels of service. With these results, a new measure of pedestrian level of service was developed. With the use of a separate validation sample, the revised levels of service obtained were found to be more consistent with the pedestrian perceived levels than the levels prescribed by the Korean Highway Capacity Manual. Hence, this research recommended the use of the revised measures for pedestrian level of service in the design and evaluation of pedestrian facilities. We also found that pedestrian evasive movements on sidewalks could better explain pedestrians' perception of the levels of service for a given facility. Moreover, pedestrian evasive movements were found to be sensitive to the width of the sidewalk and pedestrian volume.

History

Journal

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volume

48

Issue

6

Start page

673

End page

684

Total pages

12

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Place published

United States

Language

English

Copyright

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Former Identifier

2006050737

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2015-02-18

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