Comprehensive analysis of pedestrian speed under different conditions in Beijing

Factors influencing pedestrians’ speed were investigated. They included types of pedestrian facilities, the accompanying numbers, gender, age, purpose of trips and surrounding pedestrians. The data mining technique of statistical package for the social science (SPSS) was used to filter and analyze the data of pedestrians’ speed under different conditions. The differences among influencing factors on pedestrians’ speed was investigated by comparing the diagrams generated by SPSS. Through comprehensive analysis, including quantitative and qualitative analysis, a pedestrian’s speed was influenced significantly by the facilities, his surrounding pedestrians and his own personality.