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Component

The ability to walk or ride a bike safely to and from metro stations is essential to the success of any metro service, especially if some of these activities are from car users switching to the service. The main purpose of this study is to develop and apply a simple method to be used to assess, compare, and rank the walkability around different metro stations and develop a priority order and specific recommendations for improvements. The proposed method depends on extracting the walkability variables in the catchment areas around the metro stations. Three catchment areas around three proposed metro stations in the emerging city of Doha, Qatar were investigated using the proposed method to demonstrate its usefulness. The method was successful in comparing and ranking the different catchment areas in addition to identifying priority areas for walkability enhancements in each area. This method is simple and can benefit professionals, practitioners, and policy-makers to make fast decisions for future corrective measures, and it can also be used to evaluate changes over time.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Rail Transit Systems.

01618707

17-06541

English

17p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Tables

Accessibility; Bicycle lanes; Catchment areas; Connectivity; Rail transit stations; Sidewalks; Transit oriented development; Walkability

Doha (Qatar)

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06541

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:40PM