PEDESTRIAN ROUTE CHOICE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Abstract

There has been relatively little work done on route choice for pedestrians. The present \npaper addresses this issue by using a sample survey of daily walks in a UK urban area. \nThe walks undertaken are reconstructed using a geographical information system and \ncompared with the shortest available route. It was found that about 75 per cent of \nwalkers in the sample chose the shortest available route. Two strategies were used to \nsynthesise sets from which pedestrians could have chosen their routes. These choice sets \ncan then be used in discrete choice modelling to study route choice and to determine \nwhich factors are important to pedestrians in this. At the time of writing, it is proposed \nto proceed with this modelling. \nThe structure of the paper is as follows. Section 2 describes the various sources of data \nused in this work, section 3 discusses the choice set generation strategies that were \ndeveloped, section 4 briefly compares the walks with the corresponding shortest routes, \nwhile section 5 presents the conclusions that were drawn from this.

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