Improving conditions for pedestrians

Project Walk&Feel

Walking is healthy, promotes social contacts and is a basic requirement for mobility: every change of location begins and ends with a walk. In order to make these walks pleasant we are developing a method for evaluating the quality of footpaths. To do so the reactions of pedestrians in certain traffic situations are recorded and analyzed.
Walk&Feel aims to improve the quality of life and of open spaces in urban areas. This can only be done by means of a high-quality data basis for the assessment of footpath quality (so-called walkability). New technological developments such as sensors make it possible to record and map physiological reactions in certain situations in order to recognize perceptions and emotions.

The project is funded by the FFG as part of the Mobility of the Future programme. Partners are the Vienna University of Technology (Department of Transport System Planning, IVS), Salzburg University (Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics, Z_GIS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.