A Study on Pedestrian Satisfaction Among the Mobility Disadvantaged Persons According to Urban Form

Abstract

As for the paradigm of sustainable development, policies and research focusing on the improvement on convenience for mobility disadvantaged persons are currently underway. Physical facilities are constantly improving, but mobility disadvantaged pedestrian satisfaction is not commensurate with it. Therefore, local government should consider other requirements as well as improving the installation of mobility convenience facilities. This study paid attention to the opinion in urban planning that compact cities are walkable cities and examined whether the urban form, a regional characteristic, affects the pedestrian satisfaction of the mobility disadvantaged persons. In order to investigate the relationship between urban form and pedestrian satisfaction, hierarchical linear models were performed using the HLM program. The urban form was measured by land cover in the city using GIS and Fragstats. The results of analyses (Model 1∼4) showed that the urban form used as a variable at the regional level can explain 22–26% (variance) of the walking satisfaction. In addition, the mobility disadvantaged and sprawl urban form showed (−) in pedestrian satisfaction. The more sprawl, the opposite of compactness, the lower the satisfaction of the mobility disadvantaged person. This suggest that urban planning elements should be considered together to increase the convenience of pedestrians, including mobility disadvantaged persons.

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