ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a research that investigates the interdependencies and ability of the urban corridors to operationalise active transport infrastructure (ATI) which permits best practice road user hierarchies that give highest priority to walking and cycling by using cognitive work analysis (CWA). This research is an important contribution to the emerging use of complex systems approaches for the examination of urban planning and design challenges. The chapter proposes that the urban form of cities needs to be underpinned by a better understanding and prioritisation of community access. It focuses on the design of streets which are prioritised as key community conduits and destinations in their own right and summarizes the system represented by the work domain analysis (WDA). While the functional purposes and the value and priority measures levels of the WDA are presented in their entirety, for efficiency the nodes contained within the purpose-related functions, object related processes, and the physical objects levels have been grouped into representative categories.
