Evaluation of Satisfaction of Pedestrian Safety to Vehicles in Urban Environment, Case Study: Old Context of Marvdasht City
Hasan Sotoude1 * , Keramatollah Ziari1 and Mehdi Gharakhlo1
1
Department of Urban Planning,
College of Art and Architecture, Hamedan Branch,
Islamic Azad University,
Hamedan,
Iran
2
University of Tehran,
Iran
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.35
Nowadays paying attention to pedestrian movement as the healthiest way of transportation was always seriously attention by city managers. One of the factors influencing on walkability and also encouraging people for walking is to make a safe environment for walking. In this study with the purpose of studying pedestrian safety to vehicles issue in walkable environment at First we study the literature and extract the indices represent safety and after that by using a questionnaires, satisfaction percentage rate of each indices in citizens view calculated. Data analysis was done by factor analysis method in Lizrel software, results showed that the most important reason for pedestrian dissatisfaction of walkable environment safety is related to easy Crossing the street easily with 38 percent and after that the variable Presence of street crossing with 29 percent in second rank and Suitable car parking and maintain good vision with 12 percent in third rank and Presence of obstacle to traffic with 8. 7 percent in forth rank and after that the variable Observe speed limit by drivers with 7 percent in fifth rank and Safety in walkways to motorized vehicles with 5. 3 percent in sixth rank and the variable Separation of walking path and roadways has the least effect on safety.
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Sotoude H, Ziari K, Gharakhlo M. Evaluation of Satisfaction of Pedestrian Safety to Vehicles in Urban Environment, Case Study: Old Context of Marvdasht City. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.35
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Sotoude H, Ziari K, Gharakhlo M. Evaluation of Satisfaction of Pedestrian Safety to Vehicles in Urban Environment, Case Study: Old Context of Marvdasht City. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org?p=732/
