The interest of researchers for analyzing of best routes and shortest
paths allows a continuous technological advance in topological analysis
techniques used in the geographic information systems for
transportation. One of the topological analysis techniques is the route
planning, in which the constraint management must be considered. There
have been few studies where the constraint domain for pedestrian in an
urban transportation system was clearly stated. Consequently, more
studies need to be carried out. The aim of this paper is to provide a
theoretical contextualization on identification and management of
constraints to ascertain the behavioral impedance domain from the
pedestrian perspective. In this part of the research the grounded theory
was the research method used to develop the proposed theory. A
meta-model was used to (1) define the behavioral domain structure, (2)
hold the behavioral data collection and (3) verify the design of the
proposed taxonomic tree. The main contribution of this article is the
behavioral domain taxonomy from the pedestrian perspective, which will
be used to implement a module responsible for the constraint management
of an experimental application, named Router. Within this context, the
proposed taxonomy could be used to model cost functions more precisely.Postprint (published version
