Evaluation of Pedestrian Sign System of a Shopping and Business Tower Complex
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High standard of walking environment in city centers and their transport hubs is important to stimulate urban activities. This requires urban planners to ensure improvements to pedestrian infrastructure as well as sign systems to assist destination search and route choice processes of users. This project covers a case study of a newly developed shopping and business complex next to a large transport hub in Osaka, Japan. An experiment was carried out to investigate the compatibility of the sign system to route choice behavior of pedestrians. A measure to explain the relative number of pedestrians who sight a particular sign has been developed with the view of understanding the type of signs that are more useful to users. Routes selected by experiment subjects were compared to minimum distance routes that could have been selected by pedestrians with complete information about the network layout.
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