According to India's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH), every sixth person killed in a road accident is a pedestrian, making pedestrians vulnerable road users. The general approach to mitigating such an epidemic is to implement corrective infrastructure measures. However, pedestrian perceptions of such changes are often neglected. Although a few studies in the Indian context on pedestrian perceptions of safety have been conducted, the majority of them have been done with the goal of advocating for improvements to existing old infrastructure. This becomes a reactive approach, while the current study aims to examine the safety perceptions of pedestrians in newly pedestrianized zones as a proactive approach by determining the factors that influence pedestrians’ perception of safety. The study area under consideration in this study is part of the newly constructed pedestrian zones as a part of the project Tender S.U.R.E. Bangalore. In the present study, principal component analysis (PCA) with a discrete choice model (ordinal logistic regression) was applied to determine the factors affecting the safety perception of pedestrians. Based on the results obtained it was found that pedestrian perceptions of safety were significantly affected by their income level, their frequency of walking, and the three factors derived from principal component analysis. The findings of this study also revealed that pedestrians were most concerned about the approaching speed of vehicles. Referring to the results obtained from the present study, government agencies can plan future interventions pertaining to infrastructural changes.


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    Titel :

    Pedestrian Perception of Safety in Areas with Newly Provided Pedestrian Facility: The Case of Bangalore’s Tender SURE (Specifications for Urban Utilities and Road Execution Project)


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering


    Beteiligte:
    Dhamaniya, Ashish (Herausgeber:in) / Chand, Sai (Herausgeber:in) / Ghosh, Indrajit (Herausgeber:in) / Saxena, Aditya (Autor:in) / Reashma, P. S. (Autor:in) / Kabade, Basavaraj (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering ; 2022 ; Surat, India November 11, 2022 - November 12, 2022



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-10-29


    Format / Umfang :

    21 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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