Effective Width of Pedestrian Corridors

Abstract

Pedestrians walking in corridors tend to maintain a clearance from the walls and any stationary obstacles that they pass, thus, space within corridors is never fully utilized. A number of researchers have, therefore, suggested that an effective width reduction should be subtracted from the gross width to obtain an effective corridor width for design purposes. There are discrepancies, however, in the magnitudes of the effective width reductions that are suggested in the literature.