Pedestrian crowding

Pedestrian crowding overview

Summary of indicator

Objective

To measure the level of crowding pedestrians experience on footpaths and how this impacts their comfort levels.

Application guidance

Many attributes of great places can be related to people and liveability. The presence of people of different cultures, ages and abilities gathering for social activities or recreation can indicate that a place is providing a safe, comfortable and active environment that they can frequent.

This indicator will support practitioners to understand the comfort experienced by people when walking in a highly dense footpath. Based on the outcome of the assessment, practitioners can determine the ability of a footpath to maintain suitable comfort levels for people walking.

Practitioners can use the comfort percentile of pedestrians metric to measure the comfort levels of pedestrians across representative locations.

Metric

Comfort percentile of pedestrians

Related indicators

	Access and Connection Walking paths
	Amenity and Use Mix of uses Population density
	Comfort and Safety Safe speed for environment
	Character and Form Permeability Street space for pedestrians

Metric in detail