Walking is the most useable transport mood through all over the world as well as Rajshahi. Maximum people use this mood to go a short distance and sometimes to cover the long distances. For the increasing number of population, it is very urgent to assess and provide proper facilities while they walk. In this research, several methods have been followed to assess pedestrian behavior and the service quality that is provided to facilitate pedestrian. For these three different study areas have been chosen according to commercial, mixed use and residential area. About 98 samples have been taken on the basis of the purposive sampling technique. Both qualitative and quantitative data are considered for this purpose. Quantitative data includes determination of effective walkway width, calculation of average pedestrian space and volume by capacity ratio. Questionnaire survey method has been followed to collect qualitative data. In this case, variables are considered according to the good pedestrian facilities by following literature review. After that, ratio method is used to give relative rankings and weights to the qualitative and quantitative variables. Collected data are analyzed separately for assessing the pedestrian level of service and pedestrian behavior using Microsoft excel. This research revealed that the highest pedestrian flow was in the commercial area. Maximum respondents have been given emphasizes on rehabilitation of illegal establishment, construct the footpath infrastructures and restriction on footpath parking in the commercial and mixed used areas. Recommendations for improving the existing situation have been discussed on the basis of pedestrian given priority.
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abstract = {Walking is the most useable transport mood through all over the world as well as Rajshahi. Maximum people use this mood to go a short distance and sometimes to cover the long distances. For the increasing number of population, it is very urgent to assess and provide proper facilities while they walk. In this research, several methods have been followed to assess pedestrian behavior and the service quality that is provided to facilitate pedestrian. For these three different study areas have been chosen according to commercial, mixed use and residential area. About 98 samples have been taken on the basis of the purposive sampling technique. Both qualitative and quantitative data are considered for this purpose. Quantitative data includes determination of effective walkway width, calculation of average pedestrian space and volume by capacity ratio. Questionnaire survey method has been followed to collect qualitative data. In this case, variables are considered according to the good pedestrian facilities by following literature review. After that, ratio method is used to give relative rankings and weights to the qualitative and quantitative variables. Collected data are analyzed separately for assessing the pedestrian level of service and pedestrian behavior using Microsoft excel. This research revealed that the highest pedestrian flow was in the commercial area. Maximum respondents have been given emphasizes on rehabilitation of illegal establishment, construct the footpath infrastructures and restriction on footpath parking in the commercial and mixed used areas. Recommendations for improving the existing situation have been discussed on the basis of pedestrian given priority.},
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