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

Elizabeth Macdonald, Nicola Szibbo, William Eisenstein and Louise Mozingo

Journal of Urban Design, 2018, vol. 23, issue 1, 71-93

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2017.1340092

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