THE FIELD OF MOVEMENT OF PEDESTRIANS IN TOWN CENTRES
DAS BEWEGUNGSFELD VON FUSSGAENGERN IN STAEDTISCHEN KERNGEBIETEN
FOR PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC STUDIES EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING THE BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS OF PEDESTRIANS ARE NECESSARY. OF PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE - WHEN PLANNING THE DISTANCES BETWEEN STOPPING PLACES FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT - ARE REASONABLE DISTANCES TO BE WALKED. IN THIS CONNECTION THE GRAPHS "SHOPPING TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC FOR OTHER PRIVATE MATTERS" ARE THE MOST PURPOSEFUL AS BOTH "BUSINESS TRAFFIC" AND "HOLIDAY TRAFFIC" ARE SHROUDED BY FACTORS WHICH CAN INFLUENCE THE DEGREE OF VALUE PLACED ON JOURNEY DISTANCES. AN INVESTIGATION INTO PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC IN DARMSTADT CITY CENTRE GAVE AN AVERAGE VALUE OF DISTANCES WALKED BY PEDESTRIANS OF 1140 M. THIS RESULT AND COMPARABLE EXPERIMENTS SUGGEST THAT THE SIZE OF THE TOWN HAS AN INFLUENCE ON PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOUR, HOWEVER, THERE ARE NO RESULTS WHICH CAN BE QUANTIFIED FOR THIS. TO EVALUATE REASONABLE WALKING DISTANCE THE "THRESHOLD OF REASONABLE WALKING DISTANCE" VALUE WAS DETERMINED, IN WHICH REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING CONCEPTION OF LIMIT-TIME-SPACE. ON THIS BASIS THE SUBJECTIVE DISTANCE ASSESSED WAS 1100 M. ON PEDESTRIAN WAYS WHICH RUN PARALLEL TO A PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITY, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STOPPING PLACES IS OBTAINED IN THIS WAY, BUT THERE ARE STILL OTHER PARAMETERS WHICH PLAY A SIGNIFICANT PART. FOR A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERISTIC PLACE VALUE THE VALUES (A) "RELATIVE OBJECTIVE - FREQUENCY" (PERCENTAGE SHARE OF THE OBJECTIVES IN A DEFINITE DISTANCE CLASS, WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED FROM A STOPPING PLACE) AND (B) "SPECIFIC FREQUENCY OF SEARCHING" (AVERAGE FREQUENCY OF SEARCHING FOR OBJECTIVES IN A DEFINITE DISTANCE CLASS FROM STOPPING PLACES) CAN BE INCORPORATED.
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Authors:
- FREI, H
- Publication Date: 1977
Language
- German
Media Info
- Pagination: 33-40
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Serial:
- Berichte zur Raumforschung und Raumplanung
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Oesterreichische Gesell f Raumforsch u Raumplanung
- ISSN: 0067-5016
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Length; Pedestrian areas; Pedestrians; Walking; Walkways
- ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 2720: Footway; 6488: Length; 1733: Pedestrian; 341: Pedestrian precinct; STOP (PUBLIC TRANSP); 758: Walking
- Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01296639
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (KfV)
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Nov 21 2010 6:00AM