More accidents occur in Bangladesh due to pedestrian errors and lack of walkway design. This study emphasized the pedestrian flow on walkways of the two most populated cities in Bangladesh: Dhaka and Chattogram. Age, gender, and group size-based mean walking speeds of 3733 and 2818 pedestrians in Dhaka and Chattogram, respectively, were determined using 12-hour video recording data from a total of six locations in these two cities. The connections between speed, density, flow, and area module of these pedestrians were analyzed by SPSS 11.5v, and the regression model was validated using the data collected from walkways near Bogura, Bangladesh. To describe the existing footpath conditions, the pedestrian level of service (PLOS) was estimated considering of 15-minute flow, calculated flow, and area occupancy. From the results, considering gender, males had a higher mean walking speed than female for all six selected walkways in Dhaka and Chattogram whereas in terms of age Dhaka’s younger pedestrian walked faster while for Chattogram it was middle-aged. In all walkways except Chittagong New Market, walkers in groups of 2 traveled at a faster speed. In this walkway, the middle-aged males of group size 4 walked faster than group size 2 because of the inadequate sample size (=8 Nos.) of group size 4. From the analysis of the relationships of pedestrian characteristics, the pedestrians of Dhaka walked fast and freely and had more maximum density, and flow as compared to Chattogram, where the minimum area module was the same. After the constructed model was validated, nearly all of the walkways exhibited PLOS A; however, after taking into account the 15-minute flow, Asad Avenue showed PLOS B. Furthermore, in Chittagong New Market, PLOS A, B, and C were obtained for 15-minute flow, calculated flow, and area occupancy, respectively.
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