Micro Simulation of the Elderly Population's Effect on Iran's Pedestrian's Walking Flow

  • Gholamali Shafabakhsh
  • Raheb Mirzanamadi
  • Mehdi Mohammadi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v25i4.330
Keywords: Level of service, Moving stream, Sidewalk, Average motion speed, Free walking space

Abstract

Since 1996 to 2006, Iran‟s population structure experienced considerable changes. During the mentioned period, the share of the population under 15 decreased from 39.6% to 28%. Considering this decrease, Iran‟s population was quickly guided to oldness which will have irreversible social and economical repercussions on the country‟s future progress. The main objective of this study is to estimate the effects of the elderly on the moving stream of the other pedestrians in Iran‟s sidewalks, which is done for the first time in Iran using the Micro-Simulation method. The Micro-Simulation model of pedestrians is a computerized simulation procedure in which the moving behavior of each pedestrian such as speed, path, and the direction is considered separately. According to the obtained results from this study, an increase in the percentage of the elderly population can lower the sidewalk's level of service. Also, the decrease of the average motion speed and the free walking space for wider paths is not necessarily less than that of narrow paths; in a way that by increasing the width of a sidewalk, pedestrians‟ total average speed and the average walking space decrease up to a specific width and then, start to increase. This decrease in wider sidewalks is more than that in more narrow ones.

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Gholamali Shafabakhsh
Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University
Raheb Mirzanamadi

msc student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, sharif University of technology

Mehdi Mohammadi

msc student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, semnan University

Published
2013-07-19
How to Cite
1.
Shafabakhsh G, Mirzanamadi R, Mohammadi M. Micro Simulation of the Elderly Population’s Effect on Iran’s Pedestrian’s Walking Flow. Promet [Internet]. 2013Jul.19 [cited 2024Nov.23];25(4):331-42. Available from: https://traffic.fpz.hr/index.php/PROMTT/article/view/330
Issue
Vol 25 No 4 (2013)
Section
Articles

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