A Survey On Foot Over Bridges Users In Dhaka City

Abstract

Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh which is one of the most populated towns in the world. Safe roads for pedestrian are a popular catchword now-a-days. From now and onwards pedestrian in Dhaka city will be a serious headache to the city planners. Among several road user groups; Pedestrians are most vulnerable, on the contrary, they are less prioritized. Pedestrians are the victim of most fatality and casualty occurred in Dhaka city. Like other mega cities, pedestrian volume here is very high and it is very densely-especially in peak hours. More than 70 foot over bridges has already been constructed at different locations in the city to solve pedestrian-vehicle conflict at busy roads. However, number of foot over bridges in Dhaka is negligible comparing to huge pedestrian demand. In this study, questioner surveys will be conducted to investigate performance of existing foot over bridge facilities and possible causes of people’s reluctance to the use of foot over bridges will be tried to identify. Several issues or key factors will be incorporated in the survey form and people will be allowed to fill up those voluntarily. Results of the survey will be compared to some common attributes of people’s reluctance using foot over bridges like inconvenience, unawareness of the risk in crossing the street, poor accessibility, congested foot over bridges, and lack of security, time consuming and bad surroundings. Usually these are the common reasons that foot over bridges remains under-served and become ineffective to meet public demand. Zebra crossing is mostly preferable by the pedestrian. But it’s not effective in our country due to untrained driver and unconscious pedestrians. By increasing the facilities of foot over bridge (FOB) and make drivers bound to obey the traffic rules then situation can be improved. The specific objectives of the study were collect information about foot over bridge in some selected locations in Dhaka city. We used interviews and collect manual data for finding the issues why pedestrians using and avoiding foot over bridge in the city. The result we calculate facilities and obstacles of foot over bridge users. Indicate key methods for the future foot over bridge construction for the pedestrians.