01366105

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2299-06

http://scholar.google.com...andy&publication_year=2012

This paper explores measures of pedestrian accessibility and network connectivity with a network that includes pedestrian facilities in addition to the street network. Studies that focus on walkability usually use available street networks that do not include pedestrian-only facilities. The effect of missing pedestrian connections where the street network is richer than the pedestrian network has been examined in some studies, but the case of suburban environments with robust pedestrian networks has mostly been ignored. In the current study, various measures of connectivity and accessibility were compared between the pedestrian network and the street network in different suburban settings and for accessibility to different land use activities, such as schools and retail centers. Documenting the degree to which the pedestrian network enhanced pedestrian accessibility over the street network alone was motivated by the desire to inform research and to inform policy. Nine neighborhoods in the city of Davis, California, with typical suburban densities, a variety of street network types, and an extensive system of off-street bicycle and pedestrian facilities were used in the study. A network that included all minor and primary roads in the city plus pedestrian ways was also used. This network included 60 mi of off-street facilities and excluded freeways not open to pedestrians. Households were used as origins and schools and retail centers as destinations to demonstrate the effect of the pedestrian network on connectivity and accessibility in different parts of the city. The results of this study can be used to improve the measurement of built environment in studies of active travel and to increase understanding of the effect of the pedestrian network in the suburban environment.

01457870

12-1494

English

pp 48–56

2012

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309223386

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Figures; References; Tables

Accessibility; Land use; Networks; Pedestrian areas; Pedestrians; Suburbs

Davis (California)

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 8 2012 5:02PM

• Analysis of Pedestrian Exposure to Risk in Relation to Crossing Behavior
• Analysis of Pedestrian Travel with Static Bluetooth Sensors
• Automated Collection of Pedestrian Data Through Computer Vision Techniques
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Studies Based on Data from National Household Travel Survey
• Dedicated Short-Range Communication System for Pedestrians and Vehicles During Right Turns
• Developing Standard Pedestrian-Equivalent Factors: Passenger Car–Equivalent Approach for Dealing with Pedestrian Diversity
• Development and Application of a Pedestrian Volume Model in San Francisco, California
• Documenting Targeted Behaviors Associated with Pedestrian Safety
• Evaluating Effectiveness of Infrastructure-Based Countermeasures for Pedestrian Safety
• How Common Is Pedestrian Travel to, from, and Within Shopping Districts?
• Nature of Modeling Boundary Pedestrian Crashes at Zones
• Pedestrian Safety at Intersections Under Control of Permissive Left-Turn Signal
• Pedestrian Safety at Slip Lanes and Alternative Turn Lane Treatments
• Perception of Pedestrian Traffic Signals by Pedestrians with Varying Levels of Vision
• Safer Midblock Environments for Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossings: Experiment with Zigzag Pavement Markings
• Simple, Inexpensive Approach to Sampling for Pedestrian and Bicycle Surveys: Approach Developed in Pedestrian and Bicycling Survey
• To Go or Not To Go: Pedestrian Behavior at Intersections with Standard Pedestrian Call Buttons
• Using Free and Proprietary Data to Compare Shortest-Path Lengths for Effective Pedestrian Routing in Street Networks