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Table 9 Indicators of indirect barrier effects

From: Disentangling barrier effects of transport infrastructure: synthesising research for the practice of impact assessment

Effect on

Indicator

Description

Frequency of visits

Ratio of changes in number of visits

Percentage of interviewees who indicate they changed the number of visits they make to destinations and social contacts or decided not to make some of these trips to avoid a barrier [9, 10, 71, 108]

Suppressed pedestrian trips

Number of trips missing in travel behaviour statistics, relative to averages for comparable places. Missing trips can be assumed to be suppressed or that a different mode was chosen [134]

Visited destinations

Ratio of changes in destination of trips

Percentage of interviewees indicating that they changed the range of destinations they visit [108]

Routing of trips

Crossing ratio

“[N]umber of pedestrians who cross a road as a proportion of the pedestrian flow, over a given section or at a specific point” [122]. Registration through video observation

Ratio of changed routes

Percentage of interviewees indicating that they changed their route planning [59, 71]

Organisation of trips

Ratio of changes in timing and organisation of trips

Percentage of interviewees indicating that they changed their trip timing and organisation [68]

Mode of transport

Modal share

Number of trips that, due to barriers, are made with another than the preferred mode, typically foot and bicycle [29, 47, 71]