An effort-based evaluation of pedestrian route choice behaviour

Alwidyan, F; Al-Ani, A; Kirchner, N; Zeibots, M

An effort-based evaluation of pedestrian route choice behaviour

Alwidyan, F Al-Ani, A

Kirchner, N

Zeibots, M

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Citation:: Proceedings of the 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2017, 2018, 2018-February pp. 1844 - 1849
Issue Date:: 2018-02-05

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dc.contributor.author	Alwidyan, F	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Al-Ani, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-8954	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kirchner, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3018-992X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zeibots, M https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-8713	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-02-05	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2017, 2018, 2018-February pp. 1844 - 1849	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781538621035	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123062
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 IEEE. Route Choice is one of the main challenging problems from theoretical and practical viewpoints in the realm of pedestrian behaviour. A prime underlying concern of researchers in this field is to identify criteria or discover principles that pedestrians use to select their routes based on. Despite the fact that there are infinite possible routes between two given destinations in space, pedestrians in real situations tend to choose a certain finite number of available trajectories. As a consequence, there is a high demand for theoretical framework and models to describe route choice. The fundamental assumption is that pedestrians follow a route over which Effort is optimized. The existing criteria in the literature to predict route choice of pedestrians are mainly related to route length and travel time. In this paper, we consider physical effort as a new criterion, which indicates the pedestrian's metabolic energy expenditure that pedestrians may consume during their walking from origin to destination. A case study is included to illustrate the pertinent concepts and ideas introduced. Our discussion concludes with an overview of how this reconceptualization builds the foundations for a model that will enable improved operations, planning, and design of public transport facilities.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2017	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/ICIEA.2017.8283138	en_US
dc.title	An effort-based evaluation of pedestrian route choice behaviour	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	2018-February	en_US
utslib.for	090507 Transport Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Biomedical Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CHT - Health Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - ISF - Institute for Sustainable Futures
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© 2017 IEEE. Route Choice is one of the main challenging problems from theoretical and practical viewpoints in the realm of pedestrian behaviour. A prime underlying concern of researchers in this field is to identify criteria or discover principles that pedestrians use to select their routes based on. Despite the fact that there are infinite possible routes between two given destinations in space, pedestrians in real situations tend to choose a certain finite number of available trajectories. As a consequence, there is a high demand for theoretical framework and models to describe route choice. The fundamental assumption is that pedestrians follow a route over which Effort is optimized. The existing criteria in the literature to predict route choice of pedestrians are mainly related to route length and travel time. In this paper, we consider physical effort as a new criterion, which indicates the pedestrian's metabolic energy expenditure that pedestrians may consume during their walking from origin to destination. A case study is included to illustrate the pertinent concepts and ideas introduced. Our discussion concludes with an overview of how this reconceptualization builds the foundations for a model that will enable improved operations, planning, and design of public transport facilities.

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