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Selection and assessment of pedestrian areas in urban environments: a model - and expert-opinion-based approach

Selection and assessment of pedestrian areas in urban environments: a model - and... Many cities worldwide have implemented pedestrian zones in the past years, as part of an effort to ease the impacts of congestion. However, as pedestrianisation directly affects traffic circulation, operation and accessibility, the issue of optimally selecting pedestrianisation areas within an urban road network is pivotal. The present paper applies a two-level optimisation method for identifying road links and axes within an urban road network, which, if selected for pedestrianisation aiming at improving the pedestrians LoS, would result in the minimum impacts on overall traffic and accessibility. The method is based on a unified network performance measure for calculating the criticality of network links. Outcomes of the proposed method are presented for a case study in Thessaloniki, Greece. Results are expressed in traffic-related performance measures (e.g., travel time). Road links for pedestrianisation are ranked and validated through a survey, targeted to experts and representatives of the responsible local governmental authority. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences Inderscience Publishers

Selection and assessment of pedestrian areas in urban environments: a model - and expert-opinion-based approach

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Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Copyright
Copyright © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
ISSN
1756-7017
eISSN
1756-7025
DOI
10.1504/IJIDS.2021.119377
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Abstract

Many cities worldwide have implemented pedestrian zones in the past years, as part of an effort to ease the impacts of congestion. However, as pedestrianisation directly affects traffic circulation, operation and accessibility, the issue of optimally selecting pedestrianisation areas within an urban road network is pivotal. The present paper applies a two-level optimisation method for identifying road links and axes within an urban road network, which, if selected for pedestrianisation aiming at improving the pedestrians LoS, would result in the minimum impacts on overall traffic and accessibility. The method is based on a unified network performance measure for calculating the criticality of network links. Outcomes of the proposed method are presented for a case study in Thessaloniki, Greece. Results are expressed in traffic-related performance measures (e.g., travel time). Road links for pedestrianisation are ranked and validated through a survey, targeted to experts and representatives of the responsible local governmental authority.

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International Journal of Information and Decision SciencesInderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2021

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