Relationship between Level of Service of Mass Transit and Pedestrian Attitudes

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The paper reports useful outcomes to urban planners from an investigation into pedestrian attitudes with their cultural environment and highlights the existence of a quantifiable relationship between the level of service of public transport systems and expectations of residents in an urban area. Analysis of access distances to bus stops and railway stations based on surveys in fifteen different cities in Japan is explained. It is shown that the size of the city also contribute to these relationships. This project work shows a methodology to identify factors that contribute to pedestrian behavior and provides practical aid to planners to understand differences in infrastructure design expectations of pedestrians in the context of their societal perspective. The analysis also opens a challenging future direction to uncover other factors that may contribute to regional cultural attributes that impact pedestrian behavior.