Pedestrian Walking Speed, Step Size, and Step Frequency from the Perspective of Gender and Age: Case Study in Beijing, China

To depict the pedestrian characters of Chinese people, field data were collected by video camera and analyzed by statistical tool SPSS. Based on the collection of 1882 personal samples, distributions of walking speed, step size and step frequency were shown in the paper. Statistical analysis was conducted to reveal the influence of gender (including male and female) and age (including children, youth, middle aged and elder) on pedestrian characters. Results showed that walking speed, step size and step frequency followed normal distribution. At the significance level of 0.05, gender and age significantly affected walking speed, step size and step frequency, except walking speed and step size of child and old pedestrians. Results were useful in planning, design and management of pedestrian facilities.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Hui, Xiong
  • Jian, Lv
  • Xiaobei, Jiang
  • Zhenshan, Li
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age groups; Case studies; Gender; Pedestrian areas; Pedestrian movement; Pedestrian traffic; Pedestrians; Planning and design; Walking; Walking distance; Walkways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Walking speed
• Geographic Terms: Beijing (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01044117
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-1486
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 19 2007 6:25AM