Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Spatial Science
Spatial Structure And Decision-Making Aspects Of Pedestrian Route Selection Through An Urban Environment, Michael R. Hill
Spatial Structure And Decision-Making Aspects Of Pedestrian Route Selection Through An Urban Environment, Michael R. Hill
Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The review of literature is hierarchically organized in terms of • the pedestrian1s ever widening spatial skills: walking, crossing streets, and choosing routes. Route choice is conceptualized as a game played upon an urban street system viewed as a graph. Completing a walk requires the sequential selection of edges from those available in the graph. Each sequence of choices is called a strategy. This study is an investigation of the characteristics of strategies employed by pedestrians in their selection of routes from one place to another. Data were collected in Lincoln, Nebraska. Two hundred pedestrians were intercepted, tracked to their …