New paradigms related to urban residential regions are moving toward those viewpoints such as the design of road networks that are walking oriented, public transportation oriented and considering environment friendliness and this is considered to be i...
New paradigms related to urban residential regions are moving toward those viewpoints such as the design of road networks that are walking oriented, public transportation oriented and considering environment friendliness and this is considered to be important in terms of the creation of comfortable residential environments. By now, road networks in residential regions have been only evaluated centering on the mobility and efficiency of the roads and now the necessity of those road networks evaluation indices made for the shake of residents in the residential regions is emerging. To this end, this study developed an integrated evaluation criteria to evaluate road networks in residential regions in diverse city development projects implemented by the social paradigm of city recycling. The study was implemented in 3 stages at large in order to develop the integrated evaluation criteria. First, existing studies related to those residential regions' road networks evaluation criteria reflecting new plan paradigms were reviewed. Next, the evaluation criteria items were determined and weighted values were calculated through a primary and a secondary expert questionnaire surveys in order to hammer out the integrated road networks evaluation criteria. Finally, the effectiveness of the integrated road networks evaluation criteria as suggested by this study was reviewed through the verification of the road networks evaluation criteria made through case studies. To summarize the result of the study, it was indicated that, the road networks in each region such as collecting/distributing . local roads, pedestrian walkways and bicycle roads were more important than main line/subsidiary main line roads in residential regions and road networks between regions for public transportation. It was indicated that, road networks were more important than public transportations in road networks between regions and in road networks in each region, pedestrians' walkways were the most important followed by bicycle roads and road networks in the order of precedence. The result of a review of the effectiveness of the integrated road network evaluation criteria made through case studies indicated that the result was quite different from that of existing road network evaluation criteria and this suggests the necessity of those road network evaluations that consider the evaluation criteria from the viewpoint of users (safety, comfort, convenience) when evaluating road networks in residential regions.