How Far, by Which Route and Why? A Spatial Analysis of Pedestrian Preference
How Far, by Which Route and Why? A Spatial Analysis of Pedestrian Preference
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DOI：
10.4103/0971-9261.43034
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Irvin, Katja
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作者：
Agrawal, Asha Weinstein;Schlossberg, Marc;Irvin, Katja
本文报告了一项关于步行前往交通工具的调查，该调查研究了加州和俄勒冈州的五个轨道交通车站的步行者的行程长度和路线选择。在美国等机动化程度较高的国家，政策制定者开始认识到，将部分出行方式从汽车出行转变为步行出行，可以帮助国家实现重要的政策目标，如抗击肥胖、减少汽车使用造成的空气污染和石油依赖。然而，研究人员对行人行为以及建筑和美学环境在影响行人出行方面的作用知之甚少。随着社区与肥胖、蔓延和生活质量等相互关联的问题作斗争，规划者需要了解美国人将步行多远到公共交通以及影响他们的环境因素。这项调查对328名步行到火车站的行人进行了调查，主要是在工作日早上，发现他们愿意平均步行半英里到火车站，并且最大限度地减少步行距离是影响他们选择路线的最重要因素。受访者还经常提到安全因素在路线选择中的重要性。另一方面，建筑环境的美学因素很少被提及为重要的路线选择因素。本文最后使用这些调查结果，规划者，设计师和政策制定者可以用来设计成功的过境和以城市为导向的发展建议的战略。
This paper reports on a survey of pedestrian trips to transit that examined the trip lengths and route choices made by people walking to five rail transit stations in California and Oregon. In highly motorized countries such as the US, policy-makers are beginning to recognize that shifting some travel from auto trips to walking trips can help the country achieve important policy objectives such as combating obesity and reducing the air pollution and oil dependency that result from auto use. However, researchers know very little about pedestrian behaviour and the role of the built and aesthetic environment in influencing pedestrian trips to transit. As communities wrestle with the interconnected issues of obesity, sprawl, and quality of life, planners need to understand how far Americans will walk to transit and the environmental factors that influence them. This survey of 328 pedestrians walking to rail stations, primarily on weekday mornings, found that they were willing to walk an average of half a mile to the rail station and that minimizing the distance walked was the most important factor influencing their choice of route. The people surveyed also frequently mentioned safety factors as important in route choice. Aesthetic elements of the built environment, on the other hand, were rarely mentioned as important route choice factors. The paper concludes by using these survey findings to recommend strategies that planners, designers, and policy-makers can use to design successful transit and pedestrian-oriented developments.