Constructing pedestrian level of service based on the perspective of visual impairment person

Abstract

Comfortability level of pedestrian facilities is practically implied by the pedestrian level of service (i.e., PLOS), which defines the performance level of pedestrian facilities. The level is set by applying certain criteria, which may influence by the heterogeneity and the pedestrian behavior. On the other side, the growth attention is given to the inclusive pedestrian environment that pay a great consideration to the persons with disabilities (PWDs), including the visual impairment person (i.e., VIP). Moreover, the universal design of the public facilities, which has minimum barriers for the PWDs needs to be promoted more, to attain better accessibility for the public. This paper then proposes a method for calculating of PLOS by taking into account the VIP perspective to the pedestrian facilities performance.