2019 Volume 5 Issue 4 Pages A_8-A_17
According to “Tourism-based Country Promotion Plan” by Japanese Government, both public- and private- sector promote various projects related to tourism. In some areas on the other hand problem of congestion by pedestrian in the streets of tourist area becomes serious. This research was held to survey pedestrian behavior in the fields which has various characteristics of pedestrians with certain tendencies of walking purpose to collect data on walking speed, pedestrian density and traffic capacity of pedestrians and then compare between tourist-dominated pedestrian area, commuter-dominated area and other area with specific characteristics of people. The research reveals that tourist people walk in group, stop for a while, and walk slowly much more than commuter people and thus pedestrian traffic capacity in unit width in tourist-dominated area is smaller than in commuter dominated area. This result indicate specific strategies and standards for pedestrian route planning and street-designing are required for tourist-dominated pedestrian area and its surroundings.
