Effects of Urban Noise and Sidewalk Density upon Pedestrian Cooperation and Tempo

Boles, William E.; Hayward, Scott C.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1978.9924035

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“…(Above studies cited in Cohen and Weinstein, 1981. ) Jones (1983) cites studies by Boles and Hayward (1978) and Korte et al (1975) showing that increases in noise level reduce the number of subjects willing to grant interviews on the street.…”

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The Effects of Noise on Performance

Suter¹

1989

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The Effects of Noise on Performance

Suter¹

1989

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“…It has been observed that the higher pedestrian density is, the faster the movement of pedestrians (Bowerman, 1973;Boles, 1981). Boles and Hayward (1978) investigated the eff ect of environmental stimulation density and noise on walking speed and found that both these stimuli increased walking speed. However, there is a lack of more recent studies on the eff ect of environmental noise on walking speed.…”

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Environmental Factors Influencing Pedestrian Walking Speed

Franěk

2013

Percept Mot Skills

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The present study investigated various factors influencing pedestrian speed. Undergraduate students who were registered in psychology courses participated in three studies (Study 1: N = 71, M age = 20.3 yr., 37 women; Study 2: N = 92, M age = 19.6 yr., 48 women; Study 3: N =108, M age = 20.4 yr., 56 women). They were required to walk within the city of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) along a route consisting of streets with various amounts of vegetation, traffic intensity, and noise. In Studies 1 to 3, participants tended to walk statistically significantly faster in sections without greenery and with more traffic, higher perceived noise, and more people than in sections with greenery and with less traffic, perceived noise, and fewer people. They also walked statistically significantly faster in less open spaces. In a fourth study, participants (N = 70, M age = 20.7 yr., 35 women) were asked to evaluate their emotional reactions to the environment (dimensions of pleasure, arousal, and dominance), as well as to the restorative qualities of the environment. In sections where participants reported more positive emotions and higher restoration, the walking speed was statistically significantly slower. The results are discussed in terms of the relationship between urban environmental design and stress reduction.

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“…Audio sensors may be used to measure the general volume of noise along a streetscape [116], or to monitor the presence of very specific sounds. Boles and Hayward [117] showed that street noise has varied impact on pedestrian behavior while walking. Work by Echevarria Sanchez et al [118] has tied pedestrian exposure to noise directly to the morphology of building façades along streets.…”

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Smart and Sentient Retail High Streets

Torrens

2022

Smart Cities

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Here, we examine the extension of smart retailing from the indoor confines of stores, outward to high streets. We explore how several technologies at the union of retail intelligence and smart city monitoring could coalesce into retail high streets that are both smart and sentient. We examine the new vantages that smart and sentient retail high streets provide on the customer journey, and how they could transform retailers’ sway over customer experience with new reach to the public spaces around shops. In doing so, we pursue a three-way consideration of these issues, examining the technology that underpins smart retailing, new advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning that beget a level of street-side sentience, and opportunities for retailers to map the knowledge that those technologies provide to individual customer journeys in outdoor settings. Our exploration of these issues takes form as a review of the literature and the introduction of our own research to prototype smart and sentient retail systems for high streets. The topic of enhancing retailers’ acuity on high streets has significant currency, as many high street stores have recently been struggling to sustain custom. However, the production and application of smart and sentient technologies at hyper-local resolution of the streetscape conjures some sobering considerations about shoppers’ and pedestrians’ rights to privacy in public.

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Effects of Urban Noise and Sidewalk Density upon Pedestrian Cooperation and Tempo

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

The Effects of Noise on Performance

The Effects of Noise on Performance

Environmental Factors Influencing Pedestrian Walking Speed

Smart and Sentient Retail High Streets

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