Pedestrian behaviour under varied traffic and spatial conditions

Pedestrians are an important part of urban transportation system. The pedestrian causalities have increased tremendously in last to decades due to rapid urbanization and increased traffic on roads. Data collected from 8 locations in two cities of India for sidewalks and crossing are analysed in the present study. Data were collected by videography and various pedestrian characteristics like speed, flow were extracted and relations between them were developed. Results show that the pedestrians walk at different speeds on sidewalks and crosswalks. It was found that younger pedestrians walk faster than the rest. Based on gender males are found walking faster than females. The average speed of all locations for male and female is lower than that reported in literature. It was also found that pedestrian’s speeds on carriageway and on crosswalks are almost similar for younger and middle-aged pedestrians, whereas, older pedestrians walk 15% faster than their average speed on carriageway. Except at one location V the basic relation between speed and density was exponential.