The Role and Importance of a Footbridge Suspended over a Highway in the Opinion of Its Users—Trabzon (Turkey)

In the urban landscape, footbridges appeared along with development of urbanization through implementation more complex spatial structures. The introduction transport transit to cities or sometimes gravity towards important communication routes imposed their construction in order ensure pedestrians’ safety and smooth flow traffic. aim study is determine how an overpass city Trabzon used by people different ages, security motivation problem, possibility a footbridge, perceived as crossing over highway. addresses problem related use ages focused on perception connects northern part parking lot seaside boulevards Trabzon. It has been constructed road no. D010, also known Black Sea Coastal Highway. total, 124 members population who participated questionnaire, which included multiple-choice open-ended questions. ‘Semantic Differential Scale’ was evaluate results. research revealed that respondents chose for most cases it relatively rarely (59%). People footbridge every day frequently marked reason 39% only. This means pedestrians often, they begin notice other functional features footbridge. results showed purpose going down coast (76.0%), although 51.2% reported using overpass, very little pedestrians.