An Overview of Foot Over-Bridges at Dhaka City

Abstract

This study is associates the pedestrian behavior and preferences during using the foot overbridge in three different sites of Dhaka city. All the surveyed sites are the same in characteristics. The data was attained on weekdays (peak hours) using the conventional road survey method. The pie chart is used to represent pedestrian’s verdict on diverse factors. One way ANOVA test is done with the surveyed data to analyze the significance of pedestrians' gender, age, and profession over 8 different factors. After analyzing the data it’s known that the highest percentage of female pedestrians use the foot over-bridge at site 3. Students, service holders, and businessmen use the foot over-bridge most. In addition, it’s seen that age group in between 18-25 prefer to use foot over-bridge while crossing the road and all the foot over-bridges at site 1, site 2, and site 3 are safe, comfortable, time saver to the maximum pedestrians. Furthermore, pedestrians ponder foot over-bridges need to repair and free from the hawkers. Perhaps, maximum pedestrians choose foot over-bridges over zebra crossings but do not prefer to use foot over-bridges while carrying the luggage. It is also found that pedestrian’s gender, age, and profession are not significant to all the 8 factors but directly significant to few factors and different group types.