Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas

Crosswalks are the important location on the road because pedestrian are more exposed to vehicular traffic. It is important to plan and design pedestrian crossing more carefully. Currently, there are methods available for evaluating pedestrian level of service (LOS) of pedestrian crossings. However,...

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Main Author:	Ahmed, Tufail
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HT101-395 Sociology Urban
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87163/1/TufailAhmedMFABU2019.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.871632020-11-30T08:56:56Z Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas 2019 Ahmed, Tufail HT101-395 Sociology, Urban Crosswalks are the important location on the road because pedestrian are more exposed to vehicular traffic. It is important to plan and design pedestrian crossing more carefully. Currently, there are methods available for evaluating pedestrian level of service (LOS) of pedestrian crossings. However, very less number of pedestrian crossing facilities are considered by these methods in evaluating crosswalk condition. This study attempts to provide a comprehensive method for assessing crosswalks based on pedestrian facilities. The indicators in this research are taken from different guidelines available which consider pedestrian crossing facilities. A pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) method is introduced in this research to evaluate pedestrian crosswalks. An analytical point system is used to compare the existing street crossing conditions to the standards available in the guidelines. The co-efficient of indicators is estimated by conducting a survey from pedestrian crosswalk user and experts. The proposed PCLOS is based both indicators score and coefficient of the indicators. This method was tested in four case studies for checking the results in in different scenario with different pedestrian crossing facilities available. The method proposed in the research can identify the existing problems in the crosswalks for pedestrian. Furthermore, the method can also be used for proposing improvements in the exiting conditions. The needs of disabled pedestrian are also considered in proposing the evaluating method. 2019 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87163/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87163/1/TufailAhmedMFABU2019.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:131644 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	HT101-395 Sociology Urban
spellingShingle	HT101-395 Sociology Urban Ahmed, Tufail Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
description	Crosswalks are the important location on the road because pedestrian are more exposed to vehicular traffic. It is important to plan and design pedestrian crossing more carefully. Currently, there are methods available for evaluating pedestrian level of service (LOS) of pedestrian crossings. However, very less number of pedestrian crossing facilities are considered by these methods in evaluating crosswalk condition. This study attempts to provide a comprehensive method for assessing crosswalks based on pedestrian facilities. The indicators in this research are taken from different guidelines available which consider pedestrian crossing facilities. A pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) method is introduced in this research to evaluate pedestrian crosswalks. An analytical point system is used to compare the existing street crossing conditions to the standards available in the guidelines. The co-efficient of indicators is estimated by conducting a survey from pedestrian crosswalk user and experts. The proposed PCLOS is based both indicators score and coefficient of the indicators. This method was tested in four case studies for checking the results in in different scenario with different pedestrian crossing facilities available. The method proposed in the research can identify the existing problems in the crosswalks for pedestrian. Furthermore, the method can also be used for proposing improvements in the exiting conditions. The needs of disabled pedestrian are also considered in proposing the evaluating method.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ahmed, Tufail
author_facet	Ahmed, Tufail
author_sort	Ahmed, Tufail
title	Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
title_short	Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
title_full	Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
title_fullStr	Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
title_full_unstemmed	Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
title_sort	pedestrian crossing level of service (pclos) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment
granting_department	Faculty of Built Environment
publishDate	2019
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/87163/1/TufailAhmedMFABU2019.pdf
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Pedestrian crossing level of service (PCLOS) model for promoting safe street crossing in urban areas

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