Pedestrian

A pedestrian is a person moving with foot, in going or running, in opposition to that which uses a Véhicule: it is thus about a means of transport known as “soft”. Its Speed is about the Mètre by second (5km/h approximately). A minimum of walk each day is considered necessary to the human health.

Extent of the mobility of the pedestrian

Walk remains the first means of being transported in the world, but primarily in the poor countries. A good walker enduring and not very charged traverses more than 20 km per day. In the rich and urbanized countries, except on vacation or within the framework of excursions, the average pedestrian traverses with more one ten kilometers per day, and less and less since the appearance of the car. In the cities, one seldom moves with foot with more than one kilometer around the residence or work place (it is the surface of proximity, the scale of the district).

Why one walks

The modal Déterminisme corresponds to the motivations of the individual to move with foot; for example:
  • the assigned people with residence who do not have access to the means of transport tariffed for reasons Technique S; financial, geographical, Cognitive, etc;
  • exceptional reasons: breakdown, nobody having missed his bus, etc;
  • claiming walk (Demonstration);
  • the modal Transition, or Interconnection: course of small distance carried out with foot, to connect two means of displacement, for example bus-subway, car-tram, etc;
  • the final way: course carried out with foot to connect the last means of transport to the desired place;
  • the other cases, of which steps or the jogging to maintain its health, or like leisure (excursion, tourism, with a version more " dure" or adventurous; the Trekking)

Town planning

The question of the pedestrian is in particular raised in Urbanisme where spaces pedestrians and in particular the Trottoir on which the pedestrians circulate, can be the subject of conflicts of uses with the other means of transports. Defense associations of mobilities soft reproach the town planners for having produced cities where the cars were especially supported.

In the same way, on the pavements, the cohabitation with other elements with the different kinetics (Poussette S, Roller S, etc) or motionless (Movable urban), can create tensions.

Lastly, the pedestrian is regularly brought to join the opposed pavement, and must thus cross the Chaussée. He must sometimes be able to cross a highway, a railway, a by-pass etc So that this crossing is made safe, he is necessary to create passages pedestrians, even of the footbridges or underpasses.

Taking into account of the pedestrian

In Belgium, the network RAVeL ('' Autonomous Réseau of the Slow Ways '') was created in October 1995 by the Walloon region for the pedestrians, cyclists, people with reduced mobility and riders. This network can borrow tow paths and railways unused.

In Europe, TO DREAM it ( “Farming Network European” ) is the name of an European project for the not motorized mobility (pedestrians, bicycles, rollers.)

- TO DREAM AMNO is the name of the network for Ireland, British Isles, the north of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the south of the Netherlands.
- TO DREAM MED is a project assembled within the framework of a program INTEREG aiming at creating a continuous network of green lanes all along the Mediterranean coastline. The French part of the project already associating the Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable development, the Ministry for Youth and the Sports, the Rhone-Alps Area and the General advice of Herault (in 2006).
- a project TO DREAM CENTRAL EUROPE is outlined (2006).

See too

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