The Effect of Footbridges and Pedestrian Subways on the Movement System Within the Urban Planning

Abstract

The footbridges and pedestrian subway are among the material components of the urban fabric, itself considered as one of the three important elements, i.e the public transportation special traffic units and pedestrian movement systems, of the transportation system in any part of the world, which will be discussed later. Any defect at the transportation systems elements would lead to ineffective transportation system with traffic jam and difficulties because of a defect between the surrounding environment and the movement system. Therefore, the present study discusses the effect of the footbridges and pedestrian subways on the movement system within the urban planning, the through the theoretical and  practical side, applied through data collection and interviews with specialists, by asking them some unified questions and distributing questionnaires to everybody who used or didn't use the bridges or subways, within the study area.In order to achieve the study's goals, some international studies and one local case were discussed, whereby the effective application of the pedestrian systems was explored, with applied examples to reach the aspired result. Then an analytical study of the case area, located from AL-Istiklal Street until Jordan University Street, was explored in order to reach conclusions, whereby the study area's footbridges and pedestrian subways situation can be assessed and how they are applied with regard to the location, shape and use. Then some recommendations were suggested by raising the necessity to activate the role of the footbridges and pedestrian subways through the correct application of the pedestrian systems locations and improving the bridges construction and architectural criteria in order to achieve smooth, comfortable and easy pedestrian systems.

Keywords: Bridges, subways, urban, planning, movement and traffic systems.