Background

PQN will be a multi-disciplinary study, exploring the needs of pedestrians and developing models in context, based on evidence, and with measurable outputs. The project starts with an inventory of available statistics, national and international research and development publications with regard to pedestrians and documented policy statements of stakeholders on the various political and institutional levels.
Read here the Work plan (460kb,PDF) for the project
Read and download the initial Pedestrian Quality Needs project model and paper (597kb,PDF).

The outcome will be input to four work groups, of which three explore the successive levels of pedestrian needs and a fourth ensures the integration of the results.

Work Group 1 - Functional needs

This work group focuses on the physical needs of pedestrians, visible and objective behaviour and the 'technical' ergonomics of the physical and social environment and the transport modalities.

Work Group 2 - Perceived needs

This work group will focus on the 'emotional' perspective and include the perception of walking and how attitudes, expectations and motivations influence behaviour of other road users, planners, policy makers and politicians, and of walkers themselves.

Work Group 3 - Durability and future prospects

This work group will focus of the durability of interventions, designs and policy measures and on forecasting the potential of future usability and perceived qualities.

Work Group 4 - Coherence and integration

This work group will focus on the interrelationships between the first three work groups and a model will be constructed to identify pedestrian needs and the main influences on quality and behaviour.