Movement Assessment

The movement assessment forms the basis for improving the existing urban network or creating a new street pattern. Some of the factors to consider in relation to the various modes of transportation (walking, cycling, bus, car, etc.) include:

·Safety

·Air quality

·Convenience of journey

·Speed

·Walking down and up kerbs

·Pedestrian crossings

·Pedestrian and cycle (Toucan) crossings

·Segregated path

·Quality of transport

·Overbridges

·Underpasses

·Severance

·Noise

·Pollution

·Visual amenity

·Variety in visual amenity

·Pavement congestion

·Road congestion

·Quality of pavements

·Quality of roads

·Cycle facilities

The quality of different routes can be rated to help decide which should be developed or where improvements are needed. Redevelopment of an existing site may provide opportunities to re-establish old routes that have been destroyed or downgraded, and to improve movement through an area, not just to and from the new site。

Source:<https://webapps.stoke.gov.uk/uploadedfiles/Urban%20design%20Compendium%201.pdf> (P35)

Edited by Cheng Tian