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http://dx.doi.org/10.7470/jkst.2015.33.3.276

A Study on the Road Facilities Use Characteristics of the Transportation Vulnerable by AHP Analysis  

KIM, Min Je (Department of Civil Engineering, Deagu University)
LEE, Young Woo (Department of Civil Engineering, Deagu University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.33, no.3, 2015 , pp. 276-283 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pedestrians have been exposed to dangerous traffic environments, in which walking spaces in a city decrease without improved facilities even though cars increase. Such poor walking environments are deadly dangerous to the vulnerable as well as the non-vulnerable. This study analyzed the road facilities use characteristics according to a type of vulnerability in order to improve traffic safety and walking environment for vulnerable pedestrians. This study surveyed the vulnerable in terms of issues that they encountered on existing walkways and conducted the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which took all quantitative and qualitative variables into account. The results of Level-3 analysis were showed that the elderly and the disabled were partially similar; both felt most inconvenient at enter-exit sections, steep walkway and bad paved walkway. Unlike those results, people with children and/or infants answered that overpass or underpass walkways without lifting facilities were most inconvenient walking environments.
Keywords
AHP analysis; pedestrian; road facilities; survey; vulnerable;
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