Pedestrians-Cyclists Shared Spaces Level of Service: Comparison of Methodologies and Critical Discussion

Andreas Nikiforiadis, Socrates Basbas, Foteini Mikiki, Aikaterini Oikonomou and Efrosyni Polymeroudi
Additional contact information
Andreas Nikiforiadis: Department of Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Socrates Basbas: Department of Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Foteini Mikiki: Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, Serres Campus, Hellenic International University, 62124 Serres, Greece
Aikaterini Oikonomou: Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, Serres Campus, Hellenic International University, 62124 Serres, Greece
Efrosyni Polymeroudi: Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, Serres Campus, Hellenic International University, 62124 Serres, Greece

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Pedestrians–cyclists shared spaces, sidewalks and streets are now a commonly implemented urban design solution in many cities, due to the willingness to promote sustainable mobility and the non-availability of public space. The proper design and management of these infrastructures requires an accurate evaluation of their performance. The most dominant evaluation metric is the level of service (LOS) and various methodologies have been proposed in the literature for its assessment in infrastructures that are being used by pedestrians, cyclists or by both of these two types of users. The present paper gathers and presents various methodologies, and it applies some of them on two pedestrians-cyclists shared spaces in a medium-sized city in Greece. The outcomes of the methodologies are being compared both among themselves and in relation to the opinions of the users, who participated in a questionnaire survey. The review of the literature, along with the application of some of the methodologies, leads to a fruitful discussion, which sets the groundwork for future research in the field of LOS and it also assists practitioners in selecting the appropriate methodologies for the assessment of pedestrian–cyclists shared spaces.

Keywords: urban mobility; pedestrians; bicycles; shared space; level of service; LOS; road traffic engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/1/361/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/1/361/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:1:p:361-:d:474059

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().