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Title:

Evaluation of Urban Public Facility Location Concerning Pedestrians and Cyclists in Residential Communities: The Case of Shanghai, China

Accession Number:

01559067

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Residential public facility location has been thought to exercise a great impact on daily trips. There are three common layout patterns of public facilities currently in China, including along-street layout, centralized layout and the mixed pattern of the former two. This paper aims to explore how to evaluate public facility location effectively, and which layout pattern may encourage more pedestrians and cyclists. GIS (Geographic Information System) was utilized to compute several indexes for analysis, in six assumed scenarios with different road networks and the same public facility location. And the impact of road network was investigated. After that, two typical residential communities for each layout pattern were chosen in Shanghai for verification, through both objective indicators from field investigation and statistical data from questionnaire survey. Results show that, 6.5km/km2 is a turning point in the trajectory of road network’s impact on evaluating public facility location. When the density of road network reaches 6.5km/km2, service area coverage and minimum neighbor distance alone can evaluate the impact of public facility location on pedestrians and cyclists. Otherwise, the impact of road network couldn’t be ignored. And the ratio of minimum path length to minimum neighbor distance may show the accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists. Additionally, the case of Shanghai proved the effectiveness of the evaluation method. Based on these, some suggestions for public facility location in residential communities are proposed, in the hope of constructing a hospitable environment for pedestrians and cyclists.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3154

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Wu, Jiaorong
Wang, Yuqin
Hua, Chenrui

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Shanghai (China)

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3154

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:03PM