MODELING LEVEL OF SERVICE ON PEDESTRIAN ENVIRONMENT

The study provides an efficient procedure for the evaluation of level of service (LOS) on pedestrian environment. Since LOS measuring for pedestrian facilities are not well considered until now. Moreover, the safety and comfortable factors of pedestrian facilities are important for the original pedestrian facilities designing, but fewer researches had concerned about facilities of pedestrian walking environment. We used the general variables on pedestrian walking environment and step-wise to set up the model. First of all, we collect the reliable data about pedestrian walking environment, included lateral clearance, traffic characteristic and pedestrian characteristic of 263 streets in Taipei city. Secondly, we provided an efficient method to understand how a particular street accommodates pedestrian travel well, a fuzzy procedure of combining comfortable index and safety index were processed on pedestrian walking environment. Finally, we demonstrated the model of pedestrian LOS based on identified attributes