Methods of Evaluating Pedestrian Level of Comfort

Kvasnii Roman1 roman.kvasniy90 [at] gmail.com
Zhytenko Oleksandr2 zhytenko [at] ukr.net
  1. Department of Transport Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, Lviv, S. Bandery street 12.
  2. Department of Transport Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, Lviv, S. Bandery street 12.
Abstract 

Urban traffic system cannot exist without infrastructure for pedestrians. The needs of the pedestrians should be considered while designing new roads or planning reconstructure of already existing roads. Unfortunately, in many cities of Ukraine there are a lot of problems linked with sidewalks and other elements of pedeestrian facilities so they need to be assessed and reconstructured if it needed. The focus of this study is to show existing methods of evaluating pedestrians’ level of comfort, which successfully used in the world.

Keywords 
sidewalks
pedestrian comfort
level-of-service
evaluation methods
qualitative factors
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