Quality-of-service: toward a standardized rating tool for pedestrian quality of urban streets

• Autores: Elizabeth Macdonald, Nicola Szibbo, William Eisenstein, Louise Mozingo
• Localización: Journal of urban design, ISSN 1357-4809, ISSN-e 1469-9664, Nº. 23, 1, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Space syntax: consolidation and transformation of an urban research field), págs. 71-93
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents research to develop a quality-of service rating system for assessing the pedestrian-oriented characteristics and functions of streets that can be used easily and quickly by practitioners.

    Most existing methods of assessing pedestrian quality fail to take into account micro-scale landscape and urban design elements that significantly enhance the pedestrian experience, and those few that do are difficult and time-consuming to use. The proposed rating system is (a) context-sensitive, (b) capacity-sensitive, (c) takes into account micro-scale design factors, (d) is feasible to use in a professional planning practice setting, and (e) has built-in flexibility.