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Walkability
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Commoning the touristic city. Urban pedestrian routes and the ambiguous politics of exploration
This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two to ...
Routledge2023Rethinking walkability: Exploring the relationship between urban form and neighborhood social cohesion
Recent research has investigated the importance of both walkable urban design and social cohesion. Social cohesion has been shown to have broad social and health benefits, and scholars have hypothesized that walkable urban design can influence cohesion, th ...
2023Pedestrian typologies - nuanced considerations of urban walking
Vincent Kaufmann, Renate Albrecher
The analyses of urban environments, norms, micro-census and scientific studies reveal a variety of myths about pedestrians. One of them is the dominant representation of the pedestrian: A single person, usually with healthy body and in leisure mode. Pedest ...
2022Pedestrian typologies - a sociological look on urban walkways
Vincent Kaufmann, Renate Albrecher
Representations of the pedestrian as a sole and healthy individual do not correspond to the reality and diversity of walking practices. The majority of urban pedestrians has to deal with constraints to their degrees of freedom in walking. We propose a typo ...
2022Controlling pedestrian flows with moving walkways
Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux
Moving walkways are pedestrian dedicated hardware which generally decrease pedestrian travel time. We propose the utilization of these devices to dynamically control pedestrian flows in order to improve pedestrian dynamics. Three variations of a control st ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022Crash test-based assessment of injury risks for adults and children when colliding with personal mobility devices and service robots
Aude Billard, Diego Felipe Paez Granados
Autonomous mobility devices such as transport, cleaning, and delivery robots, hold a massive economic and social benefit. However, their deployment should not endanger bystanders, particularly vulnerable populations such as children and older adults who ar ...
2022Space allocation for multi-modal urban networks with ridesplitting services and public transport
Nikolaos Geroliminis, Lynn Fayed
The surge of Mobility on Demand (MoD) is largely attributed to advancements in mobile internet and technology. Ridesourcing platforms, among other solution services, offer convenience and flexibility when it comes to pick-up/drop-off time and location, all ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine2022Dynamic control strategies for managing pedestrian flows
Pedestrians, like drivers, generally dislike congestion. This is true for most pedestrian environments: trains stations, airports, or shopping malls. Furthermore, pedestrian congestion also influences the attractiveness of public transportation networks. T ...
EPFL2021Trajectory Data Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Influence of Pedestrian Flow on Path Planning Decision
Michel Bierlaire, Jeongyun Kim
The modeling of walking behavior and design of walk-friendly urban pathways have been of interest to many researchers over the past decades. One of the major issues in pedestrian modeling is path planning decision-making in a dynamic walking environment wi ...
MDPI2020Methodologies for understanding and improving pedestrian mobility
Michel Bierlaire, Marija Nikolic, Riccardo Scarinci, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Yuki Oyama, Zhengchao Wang
Pedestrian mobility is at the center of urban transportation systems. Therefore, understanding it is a necessary task to improve the mobility in cities. However, pedestrian mobility is extremely complex, and advance methods are needed to capture its dynami ...
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