Pedestrian Ways Research Articles

Influence of local meteorology and gaseous pollutant emissions on atmospheric nanoparticle concentrations in a pedestrian way in urban region

The roadside environment is one of the major sources of nanoparticle emission in the urban regions. The complex mixture of different pollutants makes it hard to understand the dynamics and behavior of nanoparticles. The study aims to analyze the dynamics of atmospheric nanoparticles ranging from 10 to 1000 nm along with local meteorological conditions and gaseous pollutants in a pedestrian way at a busy street in Delhi, a megalopolis in India, during all five major seasons of the study area. Nucleation mode particles were higher during the spring season, whereas the contribution of Aitken mode particles dominated the total particle number concentrations in the rest of the seasons. Due to the influence of vehicular sources, rush hour concentrations were higher than during non-rush hours. Thus, the diurnal pattern in particle concentration strongly coincided with emissions associated with the vehicular flow. During the winter season, the average total particle number concentration was observed to be maximum (4.1 × 104 cm-3) with a higher surface area of particles of 3.5 × 10-3 mm2m-3. Compared to the monsoon season, the concentration of NOX was 5 times higher in winter. The boundary layer height in the study region ranged from 600 to 2400 m during different seasons, and the maximum ventilation coefficient was observed to be >3000 m2s-1 during summer. Precipitation reduced the concentration of particles by half, from 2.2 x 104 to 1.1 x 104 cm-3, due to wet scavenging. The study revealed that the concentrations of particles depend not only on primary emissions but also are influenced by local meteorology and other co-emitted pollutants. Understanding the dynamics of atmospheric nanoparticles in urban roadside environments as outlined in this study is crucial to devise necessary mitigation measures for people residing near the road in order to reduce health impact and improve air quality.

What amenities drive footfall in UK town centres? A machine learning approach using OpenStreetMap data

In the United Kingdom, town centres face significant economic and social challenges, with amenities playing a crucial role in their vitality. However, no existing study has thoroughly investigated the relationship between amenities and footfall, a key measure of place vitality. This research addresses this gap by examining which amenities drive footfall in UK town centres. The study employs the random forest modelling, to analyse data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and footfall data from 960 counters across the United Kingdom. Our findings reveal that OSM data can effectively predict footfall, highlighting the importance of diverse amenities. Key amenities identified include hotels, pedestrian ways, and retail establishments. Furthermore, the study identifies critical inflection points where the presence of certain amenities significantly boosts urban vitality. These insights offer valuable guidance for urban planning and development, suggesting that a mix of diverse amenities at appropriate levels can enhance the attractiveness and vitality of town centres.

The impact of pedestrian ways revitalization on user intensities at Margonda Raya Street, Depok City

The impact of pedestrian ways revitalization on user intensities at Margonda Raya Street, Depok City

Pedestrian Arrangement On Wr Soepratman Street Bengkulu City as an Educational Area

Urban development is one of the forms of progress of a city, which shows that the economy of an area is running well, especially in the education area. The education area is an area that has a level of density at a certain time span and provides facilities for pedestrian space. A good educational area is to provide ease of movement for pedestrians. However, this is rarely found in the education area. Education areas are more dominated by the economy in the form of trade and services, so the need for pedestrian ways is often forgotten and considered unimportant. This can be seen on Jalan WR Soepratman (the gate of Bengkulu University (UNIB) up to Elementary School 69 Bengkulu City. Every day, Jalan WR Soepratman is high in motorized vehicle and pedestrian activity, both from students and from the community. The high level of activity in the area along WR Soepratman is due to the large number of Bengkulu University students and students from 69 Bengkulu City elementary schools. On the WR Soepratman road that connects Bengkulu University (UNIB) with Elementary School 69 Bengkulu City, there are no pedestrian facilities. On the shoulder of the road is used for selling activities for street vendors. Based on this, research is needed so that the end of this research can be a design solution in planning pedestrian paths on WR Soepratman Road. The research methods used are literature study, observation study, and descriptive analysis.

The pedestrian place in urban mobility plans in Minas Gerais (Brazil)

This research presents a survey of the Municipalities of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)with population above 250 thousand inhabitants that have Urban Mobility Plansanctioned according to a Federal Law. This survey is be carried out using exploratoryresearch through the recording data on the website of the Ministry of Cities, between thedays 18.09.2023 to 20.09.2023. It was found that only 53.45% of municipalities are in compliance with the legislation. When analyzing municipalities with up to 250 thousand inhabitants, it was found that only 13.11% meet the legal requirements. From this survey, it was possible to outline an overviewof Brazilian municipalities that are legally required to have Urban Mobility Plans. It wasfound that Belo Horizonte, Contagem, and Governador Valadares have plans approvedby law, allowing for an examination of their relationship with pedestrians. The outcomeis presented in forms of graphs, that compare the different Brazilian scenarios regardingthe Urban Mobility Plans focusing mainly the pedestrian way of displacement.

The use of slime molds as a design guide in urban design, A case of Turkey/İzmir/Karabağlar

Urban design is a complex and challenging process that encompasses many disciplines, such as urban planning, architecture, and landscape. On the urban design scale, it’s important to consider short paths compatible with pedestrian behaviors, especially in public spaces, in terms of designing healthier and more accessible urban areas. But conventional design processes, which are mostly based on the designer’s observations or intuitions, fail to satisfy user behaviors in usage. Studies reveal that P. polycephalum slime molds have the potential to guide good urban planning. However, it is noteworthy that there are not enough studies yet in the disciplines of architecture and urban design on the design of pedestrian ways in small-scale areas, and there is a need for research. In this direction, this study is the first step of a method that is aimed at being developed for the disciplines of architecture and urban design in the long process. The main hypothesis is that a design template can be created as a result of graphical analysis of living slime mold experiments on the map, especially in undesigned empty urban areas, for architects and planners, and it can provide creative suggestions to the designer. In this direction, in this study, a graphic design template proposal was created based on live cell experiments at a site in Izmir, Turkey, which the local government aims to design as a pedestrianized zone and open for competition. Slime molds are used directly as a computer rather than as inspiration for a computer, and a pedestrian-oriented design template proposal develops with the behavioral models of slime molds. Compared to the award-winning designs developed for the same area, it has been shown that even within the framework of simple graphical measurements, it gives better results and creates more optimal routes on main and side roads. It is envisaged that this study can play a pioneering role for studies involving more detailed mathematical models that can begin in the field of architecture and urban design.

Optimal deep transfer learning enabled object detector for anomaly recognition in pedestrian ways

Anomaly detection is a branch of behavior understanding in surveillance scenes, where anomalies represent a deviation in the behavior of scene entities (viz.,humans, vehicles, and environment) from regular patterns. In pedestrian walkways, this plays a vital role in enhancing safety. With the widespread use of video surveillance systems and the escalating video volume, manual examination of abnormal events becomes time-intensive.Hence, the need for an automated surveillance system adept at anomaly detection is crucial, especially within the realm of computer vision (CV) research. The surge in interest towards deep learning (DL) algorithms has significantly impacted CV techniques, including object detection and classification. Unlike traditional reliance on supervised learning requiring labeled datasets, DL offers advancements in these applications. Thus, this study presents an Optimal Deep Transfer Learning Enabled Object Detector for Anomaly Recognition in Pedestrian Ways (ODTLOD-ARPW) technique. The purpose of the ODTLOD-ARPW method is to recognize the occurrence of anomalies in pedestrian walkways using a DL-based object detector. In the ODTLOD-ARPW technique, the image pre-processing initially takes place using two sub-processes namely Wiener filtering (WF) based pre-processing and dynamic histogram equalization-based contrast enhancement. For anomaly detection, the ODTLOD-ARPW technique employs the YOLOV8s model which offers enhanced accuracy and performance. The hyperparameter tuning process takes place using a root mean square propagation (RMSProp) optimizer. The performance analysis of the ODTLOD-ARPW method is tested under the UCSD anomaly detection dataset. An extensive comparative study reported that the ODTLOD-ARPW technique reaches an effective performance with other models with maximum accuracy of 98.67%.

Research on the Supply of Shared Bicycles in Subway Hub Stations-Taking the Subway Station of Zhengzhou People 's Hospital as an Example

In recent years, with the rapid development of shared bicycles, it has played a great role in alleviating urban traffic pressure and facilitating residents to go out to a certain extent. However, while solving the problem of the last kilometer of travel, the uneven distribution of shared bicycles in subway hub stations is becoming more and more serious, which has a certain impact on the quality of residents ' travel. This paper takes the supply of shared bicycles in urban subway hub stations as the research object, and observes and summarizes the characteristics of slow traffic flow near the entrances and exits of subway hub stations in the morning and evening peak hours. On the premise of ensuring the right of way for pedestrians, the supply and demand of shared bicycles in the subway hub station and the configuration of shared bicycles in the surrounding space of the subway hub station are comprehensively considered, and the supply of shared bicycles is predicted by the estimation model and the field data of the subway hub station are investigated, taking the subway station of Zhengzhou People 's Hospital as an example to carry out field research and predict the actual demand and supply of shared bicycles in the subway hub. Finally, the problems existing in the research on the supply of shared bicycles in metro hub stations and possible future research directions are summarized.

Evaluation of pedestrian paths in the trade area with water transport: Case study of Old Town Pekanbaru

Pekanbaru grew and developed starting from a pekan or market located on the banks of the Siak River. The development of Pekanbaru city is inseparable from the history that shaped it, where in the 16th century Pekanbaru was once the center of government of the kingdom of Siak Sri Indra Pura which then grew and developed with trade activities, and settlements to form a potential regional structure as a tourist destination, both shopping tourism, religious tourism, and tourism in the old residential area. Therefore, to accommodate and support the activities of the old city area of Pekanbaru, it is necessary to have adequate infrastructure such as pedestrian paths (Pedestrian Way). This study aims to evaluate the pedestrian path in the aspect of accessibility that connects the potential of the old city area of Pekanbaru such as the port area, trade area, and old residential area. The method used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach through mapping the potential conditions of each character area that is reinforced by using quantitative methods with descriptive and simulation research frameworks. The results of the analysis show that some corridors in the trade area show better integration, which means that it is possible that in the trade area, there is more movement of people because it is easily accessible from various directions (accessible) while in the port area shows moderate integration and in residential areas tends to be low.

Design of Retention Pond Kacang Pedang Area as a Water Tourism Recreation Using Water Sensitive Urban Design

The issue of changes in natural conditions, Pangkal Pinang City as a downstream area of the Baturusa Watershed (DAS) with a city center whose city morphology is a basin resulting in Pangkal Pinang City receiving excessive water runoff, plus land deforestation due to illegal mining in the upstream river which is directly adjacent to the Regency Central Bangka which causes excessive sedimentation and poorly connected drainage channels. The existence of high rainfall intensity and the uncontrolled capacity of the retention pond causes the water level to rise which then flows into the retention pond area. As a result, the Rangkui river causes excessive water runoff, resulting in floods that spread to residential areas and the center of Pangkal Pinang City. The purpose of this study was to provide design concepts for the retention pond area using the Water Sensitive Urban Design method as a strategy for urban water management, particularly in the region of raw water sources. The design process is a fragmented one that starts with a collection of regional design-related problems and ends with a simulation of regional design. Recreational, residential, and educational activities will all be accommodated within the design area’s 94 hectares. The design of the area will focus on urban design elements combined with normative principles, namely land use, intensity and building, circulation and parking, pedestrian ways, open spaces, signage, preservation, and activity support. In addition, the design simulation will also focus on the water management system in the area with a WSUD technical approach that is directed to focus on efforts to infiltrate rainwater and provide rainwater storage containers, both in open spaces, green areas, and buildings.

A Review Work: Human Action Recognition in Video Surveillance Using Deep Learning Techniques

Despite being extensively used in numerous uses, precise and effective human activity identification continues to be an interesting research issue in the area of vision for computers. Currently, a lot of investigation is being done on themes like pedestrian activity recognition and ways to recognize people's movements employing depth data, 3D skeletal data, still picture data, or strategies that utilize spatiotemporal interest points. This study aims to investigate and evaluate DL approaches for detecting human activity in video. The focus has been on multiple structures for detecting human activities that use DL as their primary strategy. Based on the application, including identifying faces, emotion identification, action identification, and anomaly identification, the human occurrence forecasts are divided into four different subcategories. The literature has been carried several research based on these recognitions for predicting human behavior and activity for video surveillance applications. The state of the art of four different applications' DL techniques is contrasted. This paper also presents the application areas, scientific issues, and potential goals in the field of DL-based human behavior and activity recognition/detection.

SUITABILITY ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN WAYS WITH THE ACTIVE LIVING STREET CONCEPT APPROACH

Kampung Pelajar is an educational area that causes travel attractions on the surrounding roads so there is a tendency to experience traffic density during daytime and night. Today the implementation of the government zoning system in education has encouraged equal access to educational services through a student admission system that considers the distance from home to the school. The implementation of this system has an impact on reducing loading on roads that have indications of high density due to student movement during rush hour. Based on initial observations, walking on pedestrian paths tend to be less when compared to vehicle. This phenomenon causes a decrease in the number of pedestrians because the function of the pathway is not optimal. This research aims to evaluate the pedestrian way suitability with the Active Living Street concept, by Mapping analysis with comparative description. The research results showed that based on the examination of four existing segmented routes, the majority of pedestrian way elements are not meet the criteria, such as obstacle, type of pavement, route dimension, signage and road marking, seatings, bollard, and safety barrier.

Designing an immersive visit for public space assessment

The assessment of the quality of public spaces is crucial for fostering community well-being and urban development, contributing to the creation of inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable urban environments. It is possible to forecast the feeling imprinted in people by a future streetscape using virtual reality. Immersive visits are the best technological solution, given that a virtual environment of quality is provided with high quality resolution and urban details. The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals involved in a large-scale real estate project under construction provided us with access to the BIM (Building Information Model) architectural plans of the entire infrastructure in the future district. A part of the neighborhood has already been built and is studied in this experiment: a public place with a tram station, a typical shopping street, and a pedestrian way, mainly a public place for leisure activity. These three points of view of interest will be studied with two modalities: real video showing the actual state of the built environment, and immersive visits using head-mounted devices, enabling virtual reality exploration of these public places. This article explains the practical construction of the 3D city model, and characterize the quality of the immersive visits through the use of questionnaires submitted to laypersons (non-expert participants).

Walkability assessment and pedestrian way planning on Mercedes Benz Road Corridor, Cicadas, Bogor Regency

A pedestrian way is a space for pedestrians to walk safely. Walkability is a conceptual term for measuring connectivity and quality levels of various pedestrian ways. Walkability assessment can be measured by assessing the infrastructure available for pedestrians. The Mercedes Benz Road, Cicadas, Bogor Regency is the location used as the research object. It is used as a research location because the land use is dominated by trade and services as many as 116 units and industry as many as 26 units. A large enough demand is not balanced with the procurement of pedestrian facilities that are adequate. This study aims to determine the level of walkability and the need for pedestrian walkways. The method used is the Global Walkability Index and the Greenshields model. The results of this study found that all segments are slightly walkable. In segment 1, 1.5 m and 2 m wide sidewalks were designed. In segment 2, 1.5 m and 1.7 m wide sidewalks were intended, and in segment 3, 2 m wide sidewalks were designed on each side.

Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways

Delivery robots and personal cargo robots are increasingly sharing space with incidentally co-present persons (InCoPs) on pedestrian ways facing the challenge of socially adequate and safe navigation. Humans are able to effortlessly negotiate this shared space by signalling their skirting intentions via non-verbal gaze cues. In two online-experiments we investigated whether this phenomenon of gaze cuing can be transferred to human–robot interaction. In the first study, participants (n = 92) watched short videos in which either a human, a humanoid robot or a non-humanoid delivery robot moved towards the camera. In each video, the counterpart looked either straight towards the camera or did an eye movement to the right or left. The results showed that when the counterpart gaze cued to their left, also participants skirted more often to the left from their perspective, thereby walking past each other and avoiding collision. Since the participants were recruited in a right-hand driving country we replicated the study in left-hand driving countries (n = 176). Results showed that participants skirted more often to the right when the counterpart gaze cued to the right, and to the left in case of eye movements to the left, expanding our previous result. In both studies, skirting behavior did not differ regarding the type of counterpart. Hence, gaze cues increase the chance to trigger complementary skirting behavior in InCoPs independently of the robot morphology. Equipping robots with eyes can help to indicate moving direction by gaze cues and thereby improve interactions between humans and robots on pedestrian ways.

Walk & Bike Society in KMUTT THAILAND

KMUTT committed to be Green and sustainable university for SDGs 2030 since 2018 and committed to be a part of society that is a major force in promotion and implementation on walk and bike society within the university and expand to communities surrounded. To support walk & bike society in campus, walk & bike master plan has been designed with bike lane, pedestrian cover way, bicycle share services, bicycle repair center and “Zombike” activities which all students and staff make their own bicycle for free by using bicycle accessories from old bicycle in campus. KMUTT Walk & Bike Society policy has been launched since 2018 with bike riding activities which help to support sustainable transportation goal comply to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being; SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy; SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities and SDG13: Climate Action. The results from 5 years implementation (2018-2022) showed 75% of students and staff walking daily which can make 20,250,000 Km per 5 years in our campus. Bike activities showed daily use and 228 bicycle riding activities in total of 2,008,995 Km distance, initiated by 650 Green heart‘s students and 48,720 people from students, staff and communities participated on these activities. The results showed these walking and riding activities help to reduce carbon emission 3,188 tCO2 and reduce Diesel usage 1.59 million L. KMUTT walk & bike society help to initiate KMUTT sustainable leadership, make Green Heart ‘s students and change agents for helping communities and society expand the sustainable mobility to make healthy and low carbon society, and sustainability for all

Pedestrian gaze pattern before crossing road in a naturalistic traffic setting

BackgroundGaze is the primary way for pedestrians to obtain clues from traffic scenes before making decisions. Therefore, understanding pedestrian gaze pattern is vital for traffic safety in general and for the design of autonomous vehicles.MethodsIn this study, participants made road-crossing decisions in a naturalistic traffic scene, with an eye-tracker recording their gaze behaviors. We manually encoded the recorded videos with 14,898 fixations, and then analyzed the gaze pattern at three levels from general to specific: gaze towards overall scenes, gaze towards vehicles and gaze towards components of vehicles.FindingsAt the first level, our findings indicate that frequent fixations began to appear at the distance of 100 m and peaked around 5–30 m away from pedestrians. Transversely pedestrians mainly gazed at the two lanes adjacent to themselves. Pedestrians allocated 53% gaze duration to motor vehicles. For a specific vehicle, which is the second level, the gaze duration varied with vehicles' attributes such as distances, sizes, and types. Finally, at the third level, we discovered that pedestrians’ gaze duration on different vehicle components varied with the longitudinal distance. As vehicles approach, the main area of fixation expanded from the near side headlight to the whole front and near side, and finally shift to the near side of a vehicle.ImplicationsThe distribution of fixations in space and vehicle components before pedestrian crossing can provide fundamental information for understanding and modeling of pedestrian's road-crossing behaviors. In practice, our findings can guide the timing and position of information displays on autonomous vehicles to facilitate friendly interaction with pedestrians.

The Criteria and Indicators for Applying Transit-oriented Development (TOD) in Metropolitan Cities Based on Lessons Learned from the International Experiences

Most countries in developed countries have been implementing the TOD approach in their urban planning. TOD design in urban planning is not a new theory and has existed for almost three decades since the 1990s, and then it has been applied to a lot of various model designs suited to a country's purposes. The aim of using TOD depends on urban form, the physical aspects, socio-economic, cultural sides, and political views (policy) connected highly to each other. This paper depicts a literature review and critical review of the successful TOD from international practice gathered by researchers in recent decades. The authors realize that many documents on TOD focus on analysing the existing TOD and evaluating TOD, and the paper presenting the TOD guideline, especially the new-modern design of TOD, is limited. Therefore, the authors review the criteria and indicators and find that there are two objectives of TOD design, macro, and micro levels. At the macro level, the TOD focuses on determining the nodes of all public transport and creating a well-integrated system between the city structure (urban center, urban, and suburban) and its element. The micro level focused on urban design, like pedestrian ways, bicycle paths, station affordability, road design, parking lots, building structure and design, and others. The authors formulate the criteria and indicators in the TOD planning guideline, and it will be rules of TOD for the country in developing countries, which have not to apply for TOD or to improve their TOD effectively based on the successful TOD in any models.

Important Factors for Inclusive Pedestrian Ways Development in Pecinan Semarang City

Urban Planning is strongly related to public spaces. Open public spaces are an essential element in sustaining community activity spaces. Social, economic, and other activities regularly happen in this area. Pecinan (Chinatown) is one of the heritage areas in Semarang that still has high community activity. Narrow and crowded street in this area becomes one the issues for pedestrian. The unsafe feeling occurs when people cross the street. The store’s activity on the side of the street also creates a fuzzy condition for pedestrians. The study aims to the sustainability and inclusivity of pedestrian ways in Pecinan. Data Collection is done by observing the actual condition of 1380 samples in the field through interviews and questionnaires for the pedestrian. The method of this study uses quantitative methods and use behavioral mapping for the analysis methods. The result of the study shows that pedestrians tend to rank accessibility as the most important factor, followed by transit points, infrastructure, and parking areas. The result also shows that continuous arcade shade and vegetation coverage as other factors that affect pedestrian comfort in Southeast Asian Country climates condition. The result also reveals that an active frontage of a store creates a more lively atmosphere. The recommendation based on the study is to relocate the street vendors’ activity alongside the narrow road. The relocation also should still be near the area of the Pecinan.

PRINSIP PENATAAN ARSITEKTUR KORIDOR JALAN ALMUSLIM PEUSANGAN BIREUEN

The condition of Almuslim road corridor is seen from the aspect of accessibility, there is congestion on weekdays and working hours, this is due to parking vehicles on the road, because the local government has not planned a special parking area. The problem that occurs in the city of Matangglumpangdua is a guide to the design of the Almuslim corridor arrangement which is not implemented properly so that there is discomfort for the city community in activities. This research is expected to provide an alternative reference guide for the design of the Almuslim Street corridor in the city of Matangglumpangdua, especially for the community and the Government can be useful for the development of science and knowledge of urban architecture so that it can add insight into the principles of urban planning and design. Realize human comfort There are four solutions on the principle of structuring guidelines for the arrangement of the corridor arrangement of Jalan Almuslim kota matangglumpangdua, namely the arrangement of circulation and parking, signage system, pedestrian ways and building arrangements. The visual pollution that the signage produces needs to be arranged so that there will be a irregular. Developing land functions or unbuilt areas as parking areas vehicles area, so that there is no congestion.