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Title:

Assessment of Pedestrian Transit in Urban Areas - Illustrated with a case study in Utrecht, the Netherlands

Accession Number:

01623038

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The analysis of urban land use models for the transition to sustainable mobility is a complex task requiring powerful yet flexible modelling tools. In this paper, an activity-based approach is combined with agent based modelling to allow exploring the effect of land use intensity, non-automobile oriented infrastructure and traffic flow on mobility patterns. The model is used for the decision making process in the redevelopment of the New Centre district of Utrecht (the Netherlands) to foster sustainable transport modes and balance land use across the district to include the Jaarbeurs exhibition centre. Various demand and land use scenarios are defined and compared in this paper. Urban land use and space utilisation are linked with the aim of increasing the attractiveness of the Utrecht New Centre district, and integrating it with the surrounding areas. The results illustrate the distance travelled by agents, occupancy levels of various building types and pedestrian flow in the area throughout a day. The proposed framework is developed in a software tool which can be used by local stakeholders to integrate diverse urban plans and gain insight into challenges of sustainable mobility practices.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB40 Standing Committee on Landscape and Environmental Design.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-00967

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Sanchez, Carlos Guirado
van Dam, Koen
Zavitsas, Konstantinos
Anvari, Bani
Shah, Nilay
Polak, John W

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Utrecht (Netherlands)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-00967

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:15AM