pedestrian
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A pedestrian is a person who is walking, typically in urban areas or on streets. Pedestrians matter because they need safe spaces and infrastructure—like crosswalks and overpasses—to move through cities without risk of injury from vehicles.
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- Etymology
- History
- Footpaths and roads
- Outdoor pedestrian networks
- Indoor pedestrian networks
- Walkability
- Safety
- Health benefits and environment
- Unicode
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250px|thumb|Pedestrians on a crosswalk in [[Buenos Aires]] right|thumb|A sign in Belo Horizonte, [[Brazil, directing pedestrians to an overpass for safe crossing.]]
A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot (walking or running), by wheelchair or with other mobility aids. Streets and 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, Indian and New Zealand English. There are also footpaths not associated with thoroughfares; these include rural paths and urban short cuts.