Evaluation of walkability among METU students via traditional survey versus route-based data

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2017-01-08

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Tüydeş Yaman, Hediye
Tagmat, Zeynep Pınar
Dalkıç, Gülçin

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Middle East Technical University (METU) Campus includes a large-capacity pedestrian alley among the academic units that encourage walking strongly. However, the expansion of the campus built environment has started to threaten this aspect, which needs the evaluation of walkability and walking behavior on current campus layout. As a continuation of the previous efforts on understanding pedestrian flows and pedestrian level of service (PLOS) on METU Campus, a new survey was conducted which had a section dedicated on the evaluation of walkway infrastructure/environment sufficiency and importance of the selected improvements via traditional questions. Additionally, a map-based collection of stated walking routes enabled the analysis of walking behavior of 623 students over 1844 routes. Besides the descriptive statistics performed by the responses to the traditional evaluation questions, the route-based data resulted in enriched analyses, proving the power of the latter in evaluating walkability, which has a spatial variation by nature.

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https://trid.trb.org/view/1439044
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/75392

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Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting, (8 - 12 Ocak 2017)

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Department of Civil Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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H. Tüydeş Yaman, Z. P. Tagmat, and G. Dalkıç, “Evaluation of walkability among METU students via traditional survey versus route-based data,” presented at the Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting, (8 - 12 Ocak 2017), Washington, Kiribati, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://trid.trb.org/view/1439044.