Influencing Pedestrians’ Route Choice Using Route Shape Simplification

Pedestrians’ route choice is critical for several purposes, while deliberately changing map representations can influence users’ choice. Simplifying routes’ geometric shapes one way to achieve this. However, the other characteristics of routes (e.g., relative distance different routes, differences in initial orientation, number intersections, and direction changes) also pedestrians’ choice, per relevant research. Hence, this study conducted an experimental investigation examine shape simplification on under various conditions. The results statistical tests correlation analyses showed that (1) has a significant choice; (2) larger changes reduce simplification’s influence, intersections orientation have weak effects; (3) 1.3 times may be threshold selection recommended improvement visual continuity at nodes prove more influential. support applicability