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Investigation on the impact of walkways slope and pedestrians physical characteristics on pedestrians normal walking and jogging speeds

Aghabayk, Kayvan, Parishad, Nasser, Shiwakoti, Nirajan·2021·Safety Science
DOI 10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105012
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Pedestrian’s speed is an important parameter for modelling and simulating pedestrians’ crowd movement under normal and emergency conditions. Limited studies have examined the effect of the slope of walkways on pedestrian’s speed. This study investigates the pedestrian’s normal walking and jogging speed on inclined and level walkways. Specifically, it evaluates the impact of various slopes and pedestrian’s physical characteristics (age, gender, body mass index) on pedestrian’s normal and jogging speed. A total of 1615 controlled experiments with 220 participants were conducted on three different slopes in two directions: level (0%), gentle downhill and uphill (±6%), and steep downhill and uphill (±12%) under normal walking and jogging speed conditions. The age, gender, and body mass index (BMI) of the participants were recorded. It was found that contrary to the normal walking speed, the pedestrian’s jogging speed on the steep downhill significantly decreased relative to level terrain. Under the jogging condition, the speed difference among males and females is higher as compared to the speed difference under normal walking. Likewise, the speed difference among elder and young pedestrians under jogging is almost twice the difference in speed under normal walking. The BMI significantly effects walking or jogging speed and the pedestrian’s jogging speed decreases at a faster rate than the pedestrian’s normal walking speed with an increase in BMI. Our findings suggest that due co…

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  • The conditions of slope dominance and minimal vegetation-density and surface-roughness variability are met in urban and other developed settings where movement is expected on roads or other well-maintained hard surfaces.

    “These conditions are met in urban and other developed settings, where movement is expected to take place on roads or other well-maintained, hard surfaces23–25”

    From A singular, broadly-applicable model for estimating on- and off-path walking travel rates using airborne lidar data (2024) · cites this paper as [23]

  • Walking travel rates and times can be reliably predicted in situations in which slope is the dominant factor and variability in vegetation density and surface roughness is minimal.

    “Based on past research, walking travel rates and times can be reliably predicted in situations in which slope is the dominant factor and variability in vegetation density and surface roughness is minimal.”

    From A singular, broadly-applicable model for estimating on- and off-path walking travel rates using airborne lidar data (2024) · cites this paper as [23]

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  1. Weidmann, 1993, Transporttechnik der fußgänger: transporttechnische eigenschaften des fußgängerverkehrs, literaturauswertung, IVT Schriftenreihe, 90

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Authors
Aghabayk, K., Parishad, N., & Shiwakoti, N.
Affiliations
University of Tehran (IR)
Venue
Safety Science
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
133
Pages
105012
ISSN
0925-7535 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105012
OpenAlex
W3091957584
Cited by
75
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 5
FWCI
8.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Safety Science (publishedVersion)
  • RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Traffic and Road Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Keywords
pedestrian speed, walking speed, inclined terrain, body mass index, age differences, gender differences, pedestrian simulation, emergency evacuation

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