PATHS TO GOOD PRACTICE

This article outlines the activities of the working party set up to examine current practice in the design and maintenance of footways and describes a study currently being carried out by the Transport Research Laboratory. This latest study addresses the need for a method of condition assessment with defined standards and intervention levels. It includes a large scale pedestrian attitude survey including disabled users. Some of the aspects to be considered and some of the findings so far are discussed. Design guides for new construction and maintenance based on this survey are to be published in the summer of 1996. Other areas to be considered by the working group are outlined.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Thomas Telford Limited

  London,   United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • BURTWELL, M
• Publication Date: 1996-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 21-3
• Serial:
  • Highways
  • Volume: 63
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Alad Limited
  • ISSN: 0142-6168
  • Serial URL: http://www.highways-mag.co.uk

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Interviewing; Maintenance; Pedestrians; Persons with disabilities; Profilometers; Standards; Walkways
• ITRD Terms: 9011: Design (overall design); 1726: Disabled person; 2720: Footway; 9147: Interview; 3847: Maintenance; 1733: Pedestrian; 6103: Profilometer; 187: Specification (standard)
• Subject Areas: Design; Maintenance and Preservation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00725459
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 26 1996 12:00AM