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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

land uses can create proximity between residences, of street segment and intersection spaces. The map
employment, and goods and services, reducing can be created to indicate the overall pedestrian
vehicle trips and miles traveled and increasing active environment evaluation results,
transportation such as walking and biking. In
addition, commercial buildings providing services
were found to have a positive effect on pedestrian
frequency.

2.1.5 Perceived Safety
The perceived safety parameter enables
strategic design that integrates street lighting and
commercial uses to prevent crimes by improving
walk-safety awareness through the physical
characteristics of the environment. The cleanliness
of a street, which includes graffiti, litter garbage and
broken glass, as well as pedestrian lighting are
important factors found in many walkability audits.
Roadway and sidewalk construction can disturb
pedestrian flow and create hazards for pedestrians.
Construction zones can pose safety issues for
pedestrians by blocking the sidewalk with heavy
machinery and creating alternate routes that are less
accommodating for pedestrians.

2.2 Scoring
Indicator scores for each indicator category
were created based on expert interviews, including
city and transportation planners and consultants,
regarding their importance to pedestrian
environmental factors. Final scores were informed
by n=10 expert s. For each PEQS indicator,
respondents were asked two questions:
1)Indicators: Overall importance for pedestrian
quality. Response optionsincluded not
important, somewhat important, important,
very important, and essential, on a scale from
1-5.
2)Indicator response categories: Relative
importance of indicator response categories for
pedestrian quality. Within each indicator,
indicator response categories were assessed on
a scale of -5 to +5 (from extremely detrimental
to ideal for pedestrians). Scale of -5 to +5 was
re-scaled the responses to a scale from 0-10 for
the final indicator response category scores,
and weighted indicator response categories by
the median value of their survey response
scores.

2.3 Visualization the PEQS
Using a street segment and intersection
identifier, a visual map was created that incorporated
the evaluation results for a selected region consisting

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