Modeling pedestrians' shopping behavior in downtown areas

Aloys Borgers, Harry Timmermans

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Abstract

Modeling how pedestrians move through large downtown shopping areas and which outlets they visit enables planners and designers to assess the likely effects of their proposals to change or upgrade downtown shopping environments and surrounding infrastructure. Such a model was developed and tested for two downtown shopping areas in the Netherlands. The mod-el assumes that pedestrians visiting the downtown area are attracted by dif-ferent types of retail and services outlets. The attraction of outlets depends on the type and size of the outlets, the distance to the outlets, whether the outlets can be seen, have been passed or visited before, are located in in-door or outdoor areas, and proximity of similar types of outlets. Further-more, pedestrians' route choice depends on characteristics of the network of shopping streets and the history of selected segments while moving in the shopping area. The model may be estimated from observed or traced trajectories.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCUPUM 2015 - 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management
EditorsJ. Ferreira, Jr., R. Goodspeed
PublisherCUPUM
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9780692474341
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Event14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2015 - Cambridge, United States
Duration: 7 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCambridge
Period7/07/1510/07/15

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