Regional scientists and planners are interested in congestion, both vehicular and pedestrian. This paper examines pedestrian congestion on sidewalks in the tourism district of Bar Harbor, Maine, with a focus on the effects of cruise passengers. The analysis considers pedestrian counts and the effects of passengers on walking speeds. Cruise passengers increase sidewalk pedestrian traffic overall, but the effects on walking speeds are mixed. For both indicators of sidewalk congestion, cruise passenger impacts decrease at greater distances from the passenger point-of-entry into Bar Harbor. The methods presented in the paper can be applied to sidewalk congestion related to a wide range of facilities and events (e.g., transportation hubs, museums and concert halls, sporting events, large pilgrimage events).

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邻里拥堵的测量和分析：来自人行道行人交通和步行速度的证据

区域科学家和规划者对车辆和行人的拥堵很感兴趣。本文研究了缅因州巴尔港旅游区人行道上的行人拥堵情况，重点关注游轮乘客的影响。该分析考虑了行人数量以及乘客对步行速度的影响。游轮乘客总体上增加了人行道行人流量，但对步行速度的影响是混合的。对于人行道拥堵的两个指标，游轮乘客的影响在距离巴港的乘客入口点越远的地方就越小。论文中提出的方法可应用于与各种设施和活动（例如，交通枢纽、博物馆和音乐厅、体育赛事、大型朝圣活动）相关的人行道拥堵。