Walk-ability Evaluation of Pedestrian Facilities

Abstract

Major cities in Korea are giving increasingly attention on pedestrian facilities in order to enhance public transportation usage and pedestrian movements, and thus to develop toward sustainable transport systems. The need for proper measurement of walk-ability of street furniture for pedestrian is now a key policy requirement to be evaluated. A sophisticated tool to measure the walk-ability of pedestrian furniture in detailed scale is demanding. In particular, it is important to measure the walk-ability of the pedestrian furniture in terms of its interaction with pedestrian movements. In this paper, we have developed the pedestrian simulation model based on cellular automata techniques. This model has a flexibility to measure the effectiveness of pedestrian street furniture in terms of level of service index based on its interaction with pedestrian movements. We have experimented how to evaluate the walk-ability of different types of furniture, which can reduce the conflict pedestrian movements in some highly congested areas.