Analysis on Road Space Usage of Pedestrians in a Temporarily-Pedestrianised Street

Abstract

The temporally-pedestrianisation is one of a useful method to switch the vehicle-oriented road space to the pedestrian-oriented space in order to make a high-dense urbanized area walkable. So this paper investigates how the use of roadways by pedestrians is activated through a case study on Howdy Mall, which is one of main street located in the east side of Kashiwa Railway Station by using four types of data analysis; 1)tracing of mobile phone GPS, 2)observation by video, 3)LiDAR, and 4)questionnaire tests for pedestrians. As results, it clarifies the dynamism of change of pedestrians' use of vehicle space after pedestrianisation, and the factors for pedestrians to choose the space for walking.