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Analysis of Pedestrian Movements on Sidewalks: A Case Study in Kolkata, India

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TRANSBALTICA XI: Transportation Science and Technology (TRANSBALTICA 2019)

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This paper focuses on investigating the effect of sidewalk frictions on pedestrian movements. The study accordingly analysed the characteristics of pedestrians on five sidewalk zones selected on the basis of their land-uses. Traffic data was videotaped and bi-directional movement was captured. Empirical investigations demonstrate that hourly flow at the public transport terminal is significantly high throughout the day, while in recreational area usually it starts increasing since afternoon. Presence of buffer has an effect on speed of female pedestrians; however, such effect was insignificant in case of males. Speed of pedestrians reduces considerably if they carry baggage. Notably, it was more in commercial areas compared to public transport terminals. This is attributable to the fact that majority of daily commuters carry lighter baggage which has little or no effect on their speeds. Capacity drops down with the decrease in effective width which however does not have considerable impact on free-flow speeds. Also, the study found that sidewalk frictions affect speeds of pedestrians’ irrespective of their age and gender and capacity as well.

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The paper is based on a part of the data collected in the CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi sponsored project “Development of Indian Highway Capacity Manual (INDO-HCM)”. The authors sincerely acknowledge CSIR-CRRI.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, 110016, India

    Deotima Mukherjee

  2. Civil Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, 713209, India

    Soumyadip Das

  3. Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 711103, India

    Pritam Saha & Sudip K. Roy

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Mukherjee, D., Das, S., Saha, P., Roy, S.K. (2020). Analysis of Pedestrian Movements on Sidewalks: A Case Study in Kolkata, India. In: Gopalakrishnan, K., Prentkovskis, O., Jackiva, I., Junevičius, R. (eds) TRANSBALTICA XI: Transportation Science and Technology. TRANSBALTICA 2019. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38666-5_11

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