- Author
- Fruin, J. J.
- Title
- Designing for Pedestrians. A Level of Service Concept.
- Coporate
- Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- Report
- THESIS, January 1970, 150 p.
- Keywords
- design applications | planning | standards | people movement | human beings | human behavior | human response | human performance | stairways
- Identifiers
- some aspects of pedestrian design; development of level of service standards: objective, scope and methods; human characteristics of Pedestrians; pedestrian queuing spaces and service standards; pedestrian flow on walkways: experimental studies and service standards; pedestrian flow on stairs: experimental studies and service standards; motorstairs and moving walks: experimental studies and service standards
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to develop a series of Level of Service Design Standards for pedestrians based on a qualitative and quantitative eva14ation of the use of walkways, stairways, motorstairs, moving walks and queuing areas. Queuing standards are based on a synthesis of different levels of human area occupancy and an evaluation of circulation capabilities within the queue and pyschological factors where applicable. Walkway and stairway standards are based on time lapse photography studies of flow relationships at different levels of human area occupancy combined with an evaluation of pedestrian convenience at the various traffic concentrations. Although no definitive standards for motorstairs and moving walks are developed, the slow motion photography of almost 800 pedestrians boarding motorstairs and the subsequent use of this data in a computer simulation of motorstair utilization provides a method of determining the actual use of these units under variable traffic patterns and traffic compositions.