https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampelpfad
Trampelpfad oder Pfad ist eine Bezeichnung für einen schmalen Fußweg ohne viele Abzweigungen. Das Wort „Trampelpfad“ ist gebildet aus „trampeln“ (Verstärkung von treten) und „Pfad“ (Fußweg). Trampelpfade entstehen durch häufiges Begehen gleicher Wegstrecken in unwegsamem Gebiet durch Mensch oder Tier und sind der ursprünglichste Typ von Wegen. Ein Pfad ist gelegentlich schwer im Gelände auszumachen und kann von Menschen meist nur hintereinander begangen werden.
Trampelpfade stellen eine Wegoptimierung dar und folgen damit einem Bedürfnis. An der Bildung eines Trampelpfades ist meist eine Vielzahl von Menschen oder Tieren beteiligt. Trampelpfade bilden eine Abkürzung, einen bequemeren oder den einzig gangbaren Weg um Hindernisse herum. In gestalteten Umgebungen wie etwa urbanen Grünflächen sind sie typischerweise unerwünscht, werden aber trotzdem gebildet, auch ohne Zustimmung oder gegen die Absichten der Eigentümer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
A desire path (often referred to as desire line in transportation planning, and also known as a game trail, social trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, goat track, pig trail, use trail or bootleg trail) is a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. Width and erosion severity can be indicators of how much traffic a path receives. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed ways take a circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/0...
Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners
When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet.
We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the grass, or cut a line through a hedge. Why not, you think.
So goes the logic of “desire paths” – described by Robert Macfarlane as “paths & tracks made over time by the wishes & feet of walkers, especially those paths that run contrary to design or planning”; he calls them “free-will ways”.
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-...
Informal ‘desire paths‘ can form with as few as fifteen traversals of an unpaved route, creating spontaneous new trails shaped by pedestrians effectively voting with their feet. These paths frequently become self-reinforcing: others intuit the potential advantages of a newly-forming route and follow it, thus eroding it further and enhancing its visibility.
https://www.naturalnavigator.com/news/2019/10...
https://news.wisc.edu/desire-paths-the-unoffi...
Desire paths: the unofficial footpaths that frustrate, captivate campus planners
Follow the sidewalk and you use the environment as the planners and designers intended. Cut through the field and you form what architects, design theorists, artists, philosophers and writers call a “desire path” or “desire line.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desire_line
desire line (plural desire lines)
- A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desire_path
desire path (plural desire paths)
- Synonym of desire line
