An effort-based evaluation of pedestrian route selection

The pedestrian route selection problem is of central importance and highly-demanded in all fields of transportation systems, the pedestrian choice among route alternatives is a complex activity, which involves many aspects of psychological, behavioural, and environmental characteristics. One main underlying concern of researchers in this field is to identify criteria or discover principles that pedestrians use to select their routes. In fact, pedestrian chooses her/his route by optimising some quantities or criteria. In this paper, we investigate several possible criteria that are available in the literature to be used to predict route choices of a pedestrian. Remarkably, most common criteria of a pedestrian route choice are related basically to route length and travel time. Here we adapt physical effort as an additional criterion, which indicates the metabolic energy expenditure. Specifically we propose a quantitative index for the effort associated with routes selected by a pedestrian. Such an index can be used to evaluate and compare among pedestrian route selections. The fundamental concept of physical effort is applied to the field of transportation, where the pedestrian route choice problem is formulated in terms of the effort consumed over the route selected. An example is included to illustrate the pertinent concepts and ideas introduced in this paper.

• Record URL:
  http://atrf.info/papers/2016/index.aspx
• Authors:
  • Al-Widyan, F
  • Al-Ani, A
  • Kirchner, N
  • Zeibots, M
• Conference:
  • Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), 38th, 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 38th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF 2016), Melbourne, 16th - 18th November 2016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Decision making; Itinerary; Pedestrians; Route choice; Time; Travel; Travel behavior; Travel time; Trip length
• ATRI Terms: Decision process; Journey length; Pedestrian; Route choice; Travel behaviour; Travel time
• ITRD Terms: 2248: Decision process
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01627437
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 2017 10:09AM