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T1 A stated preference survey for evaluating pedestrians’ expectations on walkways
A1 Grazia Bellizzi, Maria
A1 Forciniti, Carmen
K1 Peatones
K1 Pedestrians
K1 Ingeniería civil
K1 Civil engineering
K1 Transporte
K1 Transportation
AB Pedestrian mobility is the oldest form of transport in urban areas. Due to the increase ofprivate vehicles, transport planning has mainly focused on traffic congestion problems,neglecting pedestrian mobility and public transport. Given the current situation of pollutionand climate change, walkability is again one of the most important transport modes toachieve urban sustainable mobility in the next future. As reported in the literature, citydwellers are willing to walk to carry out daily activities but complain about the lack ofadequate pedestrian infrastructure. For promoting pedestrian mobility, the quality levels ofpedestrian paths should be increased. Many researchers suggest methodologies fordetermining the pedestrian level of service. Among these, some studies consider both pathphysical characteristics and users' perception about the walkway. Investigating on users’perception represents a good strategy for implementing interventions aimed at increasing thequality of service. In addition to users’ perception about the different characteristics of thepedestrian path, it is also necessary to take over the importance that users assign to eachaspect.This work proposes the design of a Stated Preferences survey and the analysis of thepreliminary results. A questionnaire was addressed to a sample of 240 pedestrians on awalkway located in the University Campus of Rende (Italy). The aim is recordingpedestrians’ perception about the characteristics of the path and detecting the choices theywould make in a hypothetical scenario. Then, the collected data has been analysed by meansof a discrete choice model for assessing the weights assigned by pedestrians to each aspectincluded in the analysis.The results have allowed the most relevant pedestrian path aspects for users to be identified.Just on these aspects it is necessary to intervene in order to make pedestrian pathsincreasingly attractive and to encourage users towards active mobility.
PB Universidad de Burgos. Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional
SN 978-84-18465-12-3
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6861
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6861
LA eng
NO Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de Burgos
NO Support from “POR Calabria FESR-FSE 2014/2020 – Linea B) Azione 10.5.12” is gratefully acknowledged.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 26-abr-2024