Abou Bakr, Eman and Elgendy, Noheir (2017) Spatial Complexity: Identifying Critical Zones in the Egyptian Underground Reciprocal Stations. REAL CORP 2017. pp. 527-539. ISSN 2521-3938
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Abstract
Greater Cairo, the Egyptian capital, hosts around 10 million inhabitants, in addition to 2 million commuting, 5 million of that total are daily subway users. Large subway stations are considered, nowadays, one of the most frequently used public spaces in cities nowadays. The underground reciprocal stations are quite complex, and the majority of their users, no matter how familiar they are with the building facilities, are observed to face difficulties in wayfinding behaviors. The users perceptions, in terms of spatial configuration, strongly influence the success of wayfinding, with a specific consideration to the case of illiteracy of the Egyptian users, which is estimated at 20.9%. This paper aims at providing an objective approach to validly predict wayfinding performance. It attempts to to determine the critical zones features of wayfinding and the possible ways of dealing with them to avoid adding movement patterns to the expected planned stations layout and the surrounding urban context.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | reciprocal subway stations, space syntax, wayfinding, critical zones, spatial complexity |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Depositing User: | The CORP Team |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2017 17:27 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2017 08:15 |
| URI: | http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/373 |
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