Research on Methods of Assessing Pedestrian Level of Service for Sidewalk

Abstract Sidewalk is an important part of urban walking traffic system, the service quality affects the route townsmen choose when they go out. Differently from the traditional research, which takes traffic flow operation as the assessing standard for the level of service for vehicles, taking pedestrian comfort and safety into consideration, this paper has studied the methods of assessing pedestrian level of service by analyzing the relationship between the pedestrians' subjective perceptions and the quality of the road physical facilities as well as the traffic flow operation. On the basis of a mass of data and using statistical software SPSS, this paper established the primary factors which influenced the pedestrian level of service for sidewalk and then developed the step-wise regression model along with the pedestrian level of service categories on the basis of the main factors.