DESIGN AND SAFETY OF PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES: IN DHAKA CITY, BANGLADESH

A comfortable environment makes a journey by foot pleasant and enjoyable. However, in Dhaka city, about 60% trips are making on foot everyday but the pedestrians are facing many problems while using the walkways. A lot of research works are going on for assessing the pedestrian’s level of services in the developed nations but in developing countries like Bangladesh, it is not a significant one for the transport planners. For instance, this paper tries to emphasize the problems of pedestrians and to explore the qualitative level of comfort of the pedestrians in Dhaka City by offering a method. Six broad categories have been observed during the field survey to assess the roadside walking environment in terms of i) safety, ii) security, iii) convenience and comfort, iv) continuity of the walkway, v) system coherence and vi) attractiveness by some specific facilities.