Print Email Facebook Twitter Evidence-based design: Satellite positioning studies of city centre user groups Title Evidence-based design: Satellite positioning studies of city centre user groups Author Van der Spek, S.C. Van Langelaar, C.M. Kickert, C.C. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2012-01-28 Abstract In an era of increasing competition between urban cores, positive pedestrian experiences become crucial in attracting visitors and retaining residents. The dichotomy between use and evaluation of public spaces enables the prioritisation of urban design and management interventions in an age of austerity. When spaces are highly used but evaluated as poor, they warrant improvements over other spaces. The results therefore substantiate evidence-based design that achieves significant yet cost-effective improvements of the city centre pedestrian experience. This paper presents an approach to understanding city centre pedestrian behaviour and experiences by deploying global positioning system tracking technology. This technology enables accurate measurement of routing and behaviour in public space. Differences between the use of public spaces in the city centre of Delft by visitors and residents are measured by tracking the behaviour of three user groups. This measured behaviour is supplemented by questionnaire results to understand the evaluation of public spaces in central Delft. Subject buildingstructures & design/researchdevelopment/towncity planning To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b5918c73-5cf7-4634-879a-0a53cb8697f0 Publisher ICE Publishing ISSN 1755-0793 Source https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.11.00028 Source Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 166 (4), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 ICE Publishing Files PDF 301571.pdf 7.62 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b5918c73-5cf7-4634-879a-0a53cb8697f0/datastream/OBJ/view