Abstract
Safety and comfort walking are important factors for urban planning. To analyze pedestrian route choice behavior is necessary for providing pedestrian spaces that are preferred and frequently used by pedestrians. There were many researches based on the following three factors including 1) street environment, 2) characteristics of pedestrians, and 3) spatial relationship between the current location and the destination. Most researches were conducted from view points of 1) and 2) or 2) and 3). However few researches considered 1), 2), and 3) at the same time, also mostly they were qualitative analyses. Based on an observation survey, this study aims to investigate characteristics of pedestrian route choice behavior and develop a pedestrian route choice model.
