TY - GEN
T1 - Walkability Mobility
T2 - AHFE Conference on Human Aspects of Transportation, 2021
AU - Lukenge, Kamya Richard
AU - Siu, Kin Wai Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the School of Design and RISUD of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the research and RPg research support. The author, Prof. Kin Wai Michael Siu also thanks the Visiting Chair Professorship of the Chu Tian Scholar Program of the Wuhan University of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Owing to population explosions, many developing cities are experiencing rapid and chaotic urbanization processes filled with undefined urban transport systems that can’t respond to the growing demand. This study aims at examining how Street-infrastructure supports and encourages NMT in Developing cities. The survey highlights the role of the ‘Walkability’ mode of mobility in developing cities where most individuals still have no access to public transport. The study used a roadway characteristic-based model to assess the Pedestrian Level of Service (PLOS) for Kampala urban city center. The survey identified that Kampala city street-facilities caters less towards pedestrian safety. Most studies focus on NMT in cities from developed countries, and no previous studies have used LOS tools to measure ‘Pedestrian’ facilities in Uganda in particular. Therefore, the findings of this investigation would contribute to the scientific community by bridging the cross-cultural mobility-related literature gap.
AB - Owing to population explosions, many developing cities are experiencing rapid and chaotic urbanization processes filled with undefined urban transport systems that can’t respond to the growing demand. This study aims at examining how Street-infrastructure supports and encourages NMT in Developing cities. The survey highlights the role of the ‘Walkability’ mode of mobility in developing cities where most individuals still have no access to public transport. The study used a roadway characteristic-based model to assess the Pedestrian Level of Service (PLOS) for Kampala urban city center. The survey identified that Kampala city street-facilities caters less towards pedestrian safety. Most studies focus on NMT in cities from developed countries, and no previous studies have used LOS tools to measure ‘Pedestrian’ facilities in Uganda in particular. Therefore, the findings of this investigation would contribute to the scientific community by bridging the cross-cultural mobility-related literature gap.
KW - Mobility
KW - Non-motorized Transport
KW - Sustainable future
KW - Walkability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112646013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-80012-3_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-80012-3_21
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85112646013
SN - 9783030800116
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 170
EP - 178
BT - Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021
A2 - Stanton, Neville
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 25 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -
