Seminar
Day 1 (9 Oct 2019), Session 3, Intelligent Signage and Traffic Control, 16:30 - 18:00
Status
Accepted, awaiting documents
Submitted by / Abstract owner
Shayan Kavakeb
Authors
Shayan Kavakeb
Emmet Ruxton
Short abstract
This paper elaborates our newly developed novel wayfinding tool.
Abstract
Wayfinding is an important element in the design process to ensure seamless pedestrian journeys within buildings. Effective wayfinding settings can greatly assist pedestrian navigation within buildings especially when the size of the buildings is large such as in rail stations, airports, stadiums, and concert venues. Signage system is the key element of the wayfinding system and it is essential to be able to analyse signage visibility and legibility to ensure the effectiveness of wayfinding systems. In practice, there are some guidelines/ standards helping designers to take into account relevant factors influencing wayfinding. There is however no comprehensive tool available in the market to assist wayfinding designers by providing required wayfinding analysis and visualisation. This is a clear gap in the wayfinding, building design, and pedestrian modelling community. In this work, we have attempted to bridge this gap by developing a novel wayfinding tool integrated within the Rhino/ Grasshopper software. The objective of this tool is to calculate and visualise the visibility of signs and visible area of observers. This tool has three main outputs in a given computer-aided design (CAD) layout: 1) sign visibility to show visible/ legible areas of signs; 2) visibility over pedestrian journeys to calculate/ visualise visible areas for pedestrian journeys considering direction of movement and existing obstacles; 3) Sign visibility over pedestrian journeys to show how signs within the layout can be visible throughout pedestrian journeys. In this tool, we have used state-of-the-art approaches to define and calculate sign visibility and legibility. Moreover, the tool benefits from powerful 2D/ 3D visualisation and user-friendly optioneering features.
Programme committee
Intelligent Mobility - Management and Operation
Topic
Big data
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