A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways

For promoting pedestrian mobility, the quality levels of pedestrian paths should be increased. Many researchers suggest methodologies for determining the pedestrian level of service. Among these, some studies consider both paths’ physical characteristics and users’ perception about the walkways. Inv...

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Autores principales:	Maria Grazia Bellizzi, Carmen Forciniti, Gabriella Mazzulla
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	pedestrian mobility SP young pedestrians’ perception quality of pedestrian path Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b1fc7680e8c946678494633c0757177f
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b1fc7680e8c946678494633c0757177f2021-11-25T19:01:01ZA Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways10.3390/su1322124342071-1050https://doaj.org/article/b1fc7680e8c946678494633c0757177f2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12434https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050For promoting pedestrian mobility, the quality levels of pedestrian paths should be increased. Many researchers suggest methodologies for determining the pedestrian level of service. Among these, some studies consider both paths’ physical characteristics and users’ perception about the walkways. Investigating users’ perceptions represents a good strategy for implementing interventions aimed at increasing the quality of service. The aim is recording pedestrians’ perceptions about the characteristics of the path and detecting the choices they would make in a hypothetical scenario. This work proposes the design of a Stated Preferences survey and the analysis of the preliminary results. A questionnaire was sent out to a sample of 240 pedestrians, prevalently students, about a walkway located in the University Campus of Rende (Italy). The collected data were analyzed by means of a discrete choice model for assessing the importance assigned by pedestrians to each aspect included in the analysis. The results showed that the environment can be considered as the most important aspect for young pedestrians, while the width of the path is not significant. The outcomes also highlighted the aspects it is necessary to change in order to make pedestrian paths increasingly attractive and to encourage users towards active mobility.Maria Grazia BellizziCarmen ForcinitiGabriella MazzullaMDPI AGarticlepedestrian mobilitySPyoung pedestrians’ perceptionquality of pedestrian pathEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsTD194-195Renewable energy sourcesTJ807-830Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENSustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12434, p 12434 (2021)
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topic	pedestrian mobility SP young pedestrians’ perception quality of pedestrian path Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350
spellingShingle	pedestrian mobility SP young pedestrians’ perception quality of pedestrian path Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Maria Grazia Bellizzi Carmen Forciniti Gabriella Mazzulla A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways
description	For promoting pedestrian mobility, the quality levels of pedestrian paths should be increased. Many researchers suggest methodologies for determining the pedestrian level of service. Among these, some studies consider both paths’ physical characteristics and users’ perception about the walkways. Investigating users’ perceptions represents a good strategy for implementing interventions aimed at increasing the quality of service. The aim is recording pedestrians’ perceptions about the characteristics of the path and detecting the choices they would make in a hypothetical scenario. This work proposes the design of a Stated Preferences survey and the analysis of the preliminary results. A questionnaire was sent out to a sample of 240 pedestrians, prevalently students, about a walkway located in the University Campus of Rende (Italy). The collected data were analyzed by means of a discrete choice model for assessing the importance assigned by pedestrians to each aspect included in the analysis. The results showed that the environment can be considered as the most important aspect for young pedestrians, while the width of the path is not significant. The outcomes also highlighted the aspects it is necessary to change in order to make pedestrian paths increasingly attractive and to encourage users towards active mobility.
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title	A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways
title_short	A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways
title_full	A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways
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A Stated Preference Survey for Evaluating Young Pedestrians’ Preferences on Walkways

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