Optimizing routing and safety for pedestrians: a tool for pedestrian oriented design

Pedestrian movement can be seen as the most important mode of transportation at and around transfer points (of public transport). Most movement is made by this ‘weakest’ mode: access and egress transportation and interchanging. Walking is a mode of transportation where physical aspects as well as quality of routes count, e.g. distances, barriers, safety and logic. These facts are crucial for the choice of transportation. Nevertheless the technical aspects and flows of vehicles are being used as the central issue of design for a transfer point and its surroundings. Typically, the design of transfer points ends up in traditional building compositions, neglecting actual pedestrian movement and the potential of its surroundings. Although the traffic aspects cannot be neglected, design research shows that better results can be gained by using the pedestrian as the starting point of design. Especially station areas are complex situations for pedestrians, because of the high intensities of cars and public transport traffic. The design task for these public parts of the city is multidisciplinary: it involves urban designers, traffic engineers and architects. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E215407.

• Authors:
  • SPEK, S C
• Publication Date: 2006-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12P
• Serial:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WALKING AND LIVEABLE COMMUNITIES, 7TH, 2006, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher: THE ACCESS COMPANY

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Conferences; Pedestrians; Planning; Transfer points; Transportation; Transportation modes
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 8525: Conference; 1733: Pedestrian; 143: Planning; 1155: Transport; 1185: Transport interchange (passengers); 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01076043
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 18 2007 9:33AM