Understanding the Factors that Influence Pedestrian Environment Quality

Abstract

This work presents a Structural Equations Model to assess pedestrian environment satisfaction, encompassing a wide range of characterization factors that go from infrastructure attributes, traffic characterization to the built environment typology. The proposed model was developed with data collected in a worldwide web-based questionnaire. The obtained model presents a very good fit and ability to forecast pedestrian environment satisfaction. The results show that walking impedance of comfort related attributes of a pedestrian environment are the most valued features, giving less importance to urban design elements, traffic composition and intensity and land use. The model structure was also tested for sub-samples of different world regions showing some significant differences regarding the elements that are more valued by different social, climate and cultural conditions.

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