Abstract

Human Mobility
Track: Parks and Natural Reserves
Authors: Jeremiah Moore

Determining how slope, aspect, elevation, temperature, type of ground cover, weight of load, size of element, and length of the path affect the speed at which a person or group of people move is an important concept to recreational hikers, and in the defense and intelligence communities. Having a tool available in ArcMap that calculates the travel time for a specific path based on these variables is useful in several different applications.
After researching the effects of slope, aspect, elevation, temperature, type of ground cover, weight of load, size of element, and length of the path on the movement of hikers, a tool that calculates the time it takes to travel over a certain path has been developed. This tool allows the user to select specific subgroups for each of the variables, and then the tool calculates the time it takes to travel the path depending on the variables chosen.