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Title:

Determining a Pedestrian Route Choice Model Through a Photo Survey

Accession Number:

01556592

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper provides insights into pedestrians’ route choice behavior within city centers. It investigates how and to which extent different characteristics of the pedestrian’s physical environment influence their route choices. A content analysis is applied to the existing body of the literature in order to identify urban environmental attributes which affect route choices. This review revealed that, in addition to travel time, the five attributes most frequently mentioned in literature are building type, land use, and the presence of vegetation, other pedestrians and motorized traffic. A Stated Preference (SP) experiment was designed to further investigate the influence of these five attributes. The choice situations were presented to the participants by means of several pairs of photos, from which the participant had to choose the most attractive one. The influence of the factors on pedestrians’ route choice is estimated by means of a Multinomial Logit model (MNL). The results show that pedestrians prefer old-residential and modern-commercial walking environments. The presence of greenery and other pedestrians were also found to increase the attractiveness of route choices. Conversely, the presence of motorized traffic was found to have a negative impact on route choice decisions. When applying the estimated parameters, optimal pedestrian urban environment could be determined and attractive public walkways could be identified. These insights may help to improve the design of pedestrian-oriented cities

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians. Alternate title: Determining Pedestrian Route Choice Model Through Photo Survey.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4859

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bafatakis, Christos
Duives, Dorine
Daamen, Winnie

Pagination:

14p

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:

Photos; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4859

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:37PM