Traffic planning concerning pedestrian traffic in cities

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to familiarize readers with the issue of planning and modelling the urban pedestrian traffic. The introduction describes the factors that must be taken into account before designing new pedestrian roads or during reconstructing existing pedestrian areas. The paper furthermore introduces levels of quality of movement of pedestrian traffic, individual types and categories of pedestrians, including their own traffic behaviour. The final part of the paper summarizes the various approaches to addressing this issue, including the presentation of the possibilities of pedestrian traffic modelling based on computer simulation.