This report gives an overview of pedestrian related information provided by a broad set of studies. The information is brought together in order to contribute to efforts that aim at an integrated insight into pedestrian quality. Those efforts are made at the European level by the COST 358 Pedestrians’ Quality Needs (PQN) project and at the Dutch national level by the Dienst Verkeer en Scheepvaart (DVS). At both levels, it is recognised that safe mobility, comfortable and healthy walking in public space and quality of life of pedestrians are worthwhile objectives to aim at. Information from more than sixty studies was analysed within the conceptual framework of a systems approach. This approach is basically used to distinguish between activities in the COST PQN project. Ultimately, the literature information in this report will be of use for work package 4 of the PQN project that will identify, among others, best practises and gaps in knowledge. The reader should take into account the following two points. Firstly, the information in this report does not pretend to be comprehensive. Undoubtedly, relevant studies were performed by researchers that stayed beyond the limited dimensions of this literature study. Secondly, this report is a compendium rather than that it should read as a book or an article. Information from studies was broken into segments parallel to the systems approach. These segments are the respective chapters in this report. Consequently, passages and extracts from all those studies were allocated to the most applicable part of that conceptual framework. (Author/publisher)
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