Abstract
(1) Background: In the context of a children friendly city, accessibility and safety are the basic needs of children’s pedestrian school travel. This study proposes a comprehensive evaluation method of pedestrian accessibility and safety for children’s school travel. (2) Methods: Firstly, the school travel network was constructed by simulating the path of children walking to school. Secondly, from the meso and micro dimensions, the impact factors of pedestrian accessibility and safety were combed out, and an evaluation index system was constructed. Finally, pedestrian accessibility and safety were evaluated based on the Space Syntax analysis and ArcGIS spatial analysis, and the results were superimposed and spatially differentiated. The new evaluation method was tested in the Jintang Road area in Hedong District, Tianjin, China. (3) Results: The pedestrian accessibility and safety of children’s school travel road in the study area needed to be improved. It was found that the main impact factors were the effective walking width, the spatial connectivity, the visual integration, the obstruction of pedestrian safety, the completeness of crossing facilities and the influence of traffic flow and put forward optimization strategies. After optimized simulation verification, the overall improvement was achieved. (4) Conclusion: The evaluation method is helpful to calculate the pedestrian accessibility and safety of children’s school travel, and help decision makers determine the design and management strategies of child-friendly streets.
Highlights
With the development and transformation of urban planning from incremental construction to focus on people-oriented inventory renewal and refined governance, the construction of Children Friendly City has become an important direction for urban development
(15:00–16:00), focusing onsurvey their actual needs for school travel roads and their subjective In the questionnaire part, questionnaire interviews were conducted with prifeelings on various factors affecting the accessibility and safety of school travel
Walking is the main behavior of school travel. Whether it is walksafety of the pedestrian school travel road, 93.88% had the demand for the accessibility, and ing through, crossing the street or chasing and playing, accessibility and safety are the the accessibility and safety were the rigid demand of the pedestrian school travel (Figure 4)
Summary
With the development and transformation of urban planning from incremental construction to focus on people-oriented inventory renewal and refined governance, the construction of Children Friendly City has become an important direction for urban development. The construction of active school travel roads had become an important part of the construction of Children Friendly Cities and Communities in many countries, such as the Safe Routes to School program in the United States, the Walking School Bus. Int. This study carries out the evaluation and optimization of the walkability of children’s school travel roads from the perspective of community life circle, focuses on solving the problems of accessibility and safety requirements. This study discusses how to comprehensively consider the children’s walkability and safety needs of school travel roads and how to carry out comprehensive evaluation of control indicators. It discusses how to comprehensively consider the children’s walkability and safety needs of school travel roads, and construct a research route with strong operability
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