The idea of sustainable campuses gives particular importance to walking as the primary travel mode. Hence, pedestrian-friendly facilities should be built to achieve this goal. This study investigates the pedestrian walking behavior on the sidewalks on the Ege University campus in Türkiye. The campus is the size of a smaller city with 55,000 students, 3,395 academic staff, and 7,098 administrative personnel. The policy of Ege University is to reduce the number of motorized vehicles on campus. The ‘park and walk’ strategy has been adopted to achieve this goal. Two parking lots have been built at the campus entrance, and those entering the campus are directed to park their vehicles in these parking lots. Therefore, walking is the primary travel mode on campus. In this study walking speed of pedestrians on sidewalks and the factors affecting the walking speed were found. Sidewalks provide safe walking areas for pedestrians; however, as the density increases, pedestrians tend to walk on the street either reserved for bicycles/e-scooters or motorized vehicles. Field observations were made at four sidewalk segments of the campus with video cameras in April 2022. Pedestrians were categorized according to gender, group size, item carrying, earphones, and cellphone usage (talking or texting). A total of 1061 pedestrians were observed. The data were used for computing the average walking speed on sidewalks on the campus. ANOVA was used to determine the factors affecting the walking speed. When all pedestrians were evaluated, the average walking speed on the campus was found to be 1.33 m/s.

Campus; Walking speed; ANOVA