Editing Pedestrian (section)

==Footpaths and roads==

===Outdoor pedestrian networks===
[[File:Colección de hombres cruzando.JPG|thumb|Pedestrian signal in [[Santa Ana (California)|Santa Ana]], [[California]].]]
[[File:Bauman Street.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The pedestrian [[Baumana Street, Kazan|Bauman Street]] in [[Kazan]], [[Russia]].]]
[[File:Yieldpeds.jpg|thumb|right|100px|In many jurisdictions in the [[United States]], one must yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.]]
[[File:LightTunnelDetroit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Colorful pedestrian ''Light Tunnel'' at Detroit's [[Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport|DTW airport]], United States.]]

Roads often have a designated footpath for pedestrian [[traffic]], called the ''[[sidewalk]]'' in [[North American English]], the ''pavement'' in [[British English]], and the ''footpath'' in [[Australian English|Australian]] and [[New Zealand English]]. There are also footpaths not associated with a road; these include urban short cuts and also rural paths used mainly by ramblers, hikers, or hill-walkers. Footpaths in mountainous or forested areas may also be called ''[[trail]]s''. Pedestrians share some footpaths with horses and bicycles: these paths may be known as bridleways. Other byways used by walkers are also accessible to [[vehicle]]s. There are also many roads with no footpath. Some modern towns (such as the new suburbs of [[Peterborough]] in England) are designed with the network of footpaths and cycle paths almost entirely separate from the road network.

The term ''trail'' is also used by the authorities in some countries to mean any footpath that is not attached to a road or street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sidewalks/appb.htm |title=Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access |work=[[U.S. Department of Transportation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529005217/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sidewalks/appb.htm |archive-date=29 May 2010 |date=7 July 2017 |access-date=8 May 2018 |quote=Trail – A path of travel for recreation and/or transportation within a park, natural environment, or designated corridor that is not classified as a highway, road, or street}}</ref> If such footpaths are in urban environments and are meant for both pedestrians and pedal cyclists, they can be called ''[[shared use path]]s''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sidewalk2/sidewalks214.htm|title=Part II of II: Best Practices Design Guide – Sidewalk2 – Publications – Bicycle and Pedestrian Program – Environment – FHWA|website=[[Federal Highway Administration|Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)]]|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129172738/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sidewalk2/sidewalks214.htm|archive-date=29 November 2011}}</ref> or ''multi-use paths'' in general and official usage.

Some [[Retailing#Shops and stores|shopping]] streets are for pedestrians only. Some roads have special [[pedestrian crossing]]s. A bridge solely for pedestrians is a [[footbridge]].

In Britain, regardless of whether there is a footpath, pedestrians have the legal right to use most public roads, excluding motorways and some toll tunnels and bridges such as the [[Blackwall Tunnel]] and the [[Dartford Crossing]] — although sometimes it may endanger the pedestrian and other road users. [[The Highway Code|The UK Highway Code]] advises that pedestrians should walk in the opposite direction to oncoming traffic on a road with no footpath.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedestrians-1-to-35|title=Rules for pedestrians (1 to 35) – The Highway Code – Guidance – GOV.UK|website=www.gov.uk|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108183219/https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedestrians-1-to-35|archive-date=8 January 2018}}</ref>

===Indoor pedestrian networks===
Indoor pedestrian networks connect the different rooms or spaces of a building. Airports, museums, campuses, hospitals and shopping centres might have tools allowing for the computation of the shortest paths between two destinations. Their increasing availability is due to the complexity of path finding in these facilities.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Goetz | first1 = M. | last2 = Zipf | first2 = A. | year = 2011 | title = Formal definition of a user-adaptive and length-optimal routing graph for complex indoor environments | doi = 10.1007/s11806-011-0474-3 | journal = Geo-spatial Information Science | volume = 14 | issue = 2| pages = 119–128 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2011GSIS...14..119G }}</ref> Different mapping tools, such as [[OpenStreetMap]], are extending to indoor spaces.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Goetz | first1 = M | year = 2012 | title = Using Crowdsourced Indoor Geodata for the Creation of a Three-Dimensional Indoor Routing Web Application | doi = 10.3390/fi4020575 | journal = Future Internet | volume = 4 | issue = 2| pages = 575–591 | doi-access = free }}</ref>