Analysis Of Footpath Service Quality From Bijoy Sarani To New Market

Abstract

As a Bangladeshi most of the people of this country want to live in the Dhaka city to lead their life better than village life. Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and its population is increasing day by day. Walking is the most popular and important transport system. Maximum people use this mood to go a short distance and sometimes cover the long distances. In this study the Analysis of footpath quality, safety and security of a root from Bijaoy sarani to Newmarket of Dhaka city have been evaluated. In this study six study points of Bijaoy sarani to Newmarket area selected for collecting qualitative and quantitative data. This work is conducted over about 300 people at 6 points; the surrounding area of conductionis around 100 meters from every approach. Spending 4 hours/day we have got data from reconnaissance survey, demographic survey, and questionnaire survey for data analysis. This work was continued for almost eighteen days. The questionnaire survey has been categorized into five ratings (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4&5) which indicates very poor, poor, medium, good, and very good respectively. Demographic survey has been performed based on age, gender, education, occupation, monthly income, purposes of using footpath. The maximum age value 26-40 years is 36% with 70% male and 30% female. Maximum are secondary educated 50%; income level of most of the people 10,000 to 25,000 tk. and 34% are below 10,000 tk. They uses footpath about 2 hours in a day. Width of the footpath is medium 53.33% commented. Overall footpath facilities 46%, attractiveness 60% is also medium. Safety and security is unsafe at night and safe at daylight though some violent work occurs. Among 300 responders a large number of people 62% said that the footpath quality of this area is medium and some people of them 8% are satisfied with the quality of footpath but 30% people say that footpath quality of this area is low and they are very unsatisfied.