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标题：Exploring physical attributes of walkability from perspective of blind pedestrians
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作者：Russ Bona Frazila ; Febri Zukhruf
期刊名称：MATEC Web of Conferences
电子版ISSN：2261-236X
出版年度：2018
卷号：147
DOI：10.1051/matecconf/201814702002
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：Access has become a crucial issue for the persons with disabilities (PWDs), in which the inconvenient transportation facilities is contributed to the dependent living issue of PWD, specifically the visual impaired person. As a primary aspect of transportation, the walking facilities further needs to be carefully considered for facilitating their moving activities. Recently, the effect of built environment on walking behavior has obtained significant attention, which is generally constructed within the framework of walkability concept. The walkability has been extensively used for evaluating the physical attributes of pedestrian facilities by comparing it to the walker perception. Hence, the evaluation result can directly answer the needs of pedestrian. Despite of their recent research achievements, the walkability concept is mostly unsuccessful to take into account the blind walker characteristics. This paper then explore physical attributes of walkability environment in order to provide the friendly pedestrian facilities for the blind pedestrian, which is rarely explored. The research is established based on the blind walker perspectives within the micro-level analysis that incorporates a smaller unit of measurement (i.e., the street-level physical attributes). The physical attributes result are thus potentially to be utilized for analyzing the required pedestrian facilities for the blind pedestrians.