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Title:

Impact Analysis of Human Factors on Pedestrian Traffic Characteristics --Walking Speed Revisited

Accession Number:

01337261

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Pedestrian traffic characteristics are affected simultaneously by many factors. This challenges the impact analyses of a certain factor on pedestrian traffic. To obtain accurate effects of each factor, this paper argues that the interferential impacts of all other factors should be excluded when a single factor is under investigation. Walking speed was selected as the analysis object of pedestrian traffic characteristics. Three important human factors, i.e. pedestrian gender, age and luggage-carrying, were investigated as for their impacts on walking speed. Each factor was divided into several levels for elaborate impact analysis. Through video observations of a section of level passageway in Shanghai Metro station, nearly 1,000 speed samples were obtained. These speed samples include twenty-two different combinations of gender, age and luggage. By statistical analysis of these speed combinations, impacts of gender, age, and luggage on walking speed were revealed individually. Except for older pedestrians, males walk faster than females by 5%-7%. Middle-aged pedestrians walk slower than the young by 6%-8%, and older pedestrians walk slower than the young by 18%-24%. Compared with no luggage, small luggage only reduces mean walking speed by 2%-3%. For medium luggage, large luggage and trolley case, the rates of descend for walking speeds were 5%-8%, 10-14%, and 3-8% respectively. The collected data, proposed methodology and revealed results could be helpful to comprehend the pedestrian traffic characteristics and to set up appropriate standards in pedestrian planning and design.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-2893

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ye, Jianhong
Chen, Xiaohong
Jian, Nanjing

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (4) ; References (15) ; Tables (6)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Walking speed

Geographic Terms:

Shanghai (China)

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-2893

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:19PM