Level of service (LOS) is a qualitative or quantitative measure of the operation condition of a facility. The quantitative assessment indicates the flow condition, and the qualitative assessment presents the satisfaction level of users with the facility. Generally, six categorizations are used for LOS. The LOS or the Measures of Effectiveness change with the type of facility. Despite the technological advancement in the transportation sector, the need to walk has not diminished. This warrants the evaluation of pedestrian facilities. This paper reviews the works done related to pedestrian facilities and focuses on the identification of the factors which influence the LOS and the methodologies adopted to arrive at the LOS for a facility. Various influencing factors being identified are pedestrians’ personal characteristics, roadway characteristics, traffic characteristics, operational characteristics, pedestrian perception, pedestrian speed, pedestrian delay and pedestrian behavioural characteristics. Various approaches have been used by different researchers to arrive at categorized LOS for different pedestrian facilities. These are regression analysis, point system, GA Fuzzy clustering approach and C-mean clustering approach.


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    Title :

    Pedestrian Level of Service: A Review of Factors and Methodology


    Additional title:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering ; 2022 ; Surat, India November 11, 2022 - November 12, 2022



    Publication date :

    2023-10-29


    Size :

    18 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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