The Study on Factors Influencing Pedestrian Volume based on Physical Environment of Street - Focused on Main Commercial Street of Seoul -

Abstract

It is important to make the pedestrian-friendly streets for qualitative satisfaction of ambulatory experience and street vitalization within commercial streets. Therefore this study analyzes the relationship between physical environmental factors of street and pedestrian volume. The higher pedestrian volume goes with the higher building coverage ratio, the nearer distance to subway station, the wider sidewalk, the exclusive pedestrian road rather than shared pedestrian road; especially with regard to block organization and street system, the more regular type of block, the wider road, the more number of road intersection, the main road rather than the rear-side road; the higher commercial density, the lower residential density, and the street with small-sized commercial facilities concentrated together rather than the street with large-sized facilities located. This result represents that the pedestrian volume is high as the road width is wide and the accessibility to transportation is good; that the characteristics of urban organization such as regular-type block, wide choice of street due to road intersection instead of dead-end road, good road network, etc. can increase the pedestrian volume; that it is important to concentrate the small-sized commercial facilities instead of large-sized commercial facilities for the street vitalization.