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 THESIS TITLE :

Study the functioning of Foot Over

Bridge in Dhaka City (North)

SUPERVISED BY PRESENTED BY
Abdul Hannan
Roll: 4466
Shamima Akter Shamsul Arfin
Lecturer Roll: 4464
Department of Civil Engineering
World University of Bangladesh

Department of Civil Engineering

World University of Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2
OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION

1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Methodology
4. Data Analysis
5. Results
6. Conclusions
7. Recommendations
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 INTRODUCTION
Bangladesh is the 9th most populous country. With a population of this size, it's not
surprising that Bangladesh's largest city has a population of over 10 million. Dhaka, the
capital, has 10.3 million residents and is one of the largest cities in the world. Dhaka
City Corporation has constructed number of foot over bridges to avoid vehicle
pedestrian conflict and smooth flow of both without interruptions. One of the purposes
of the foot over bridges are to ensure safe road crossing facility for the pedestrian.
However, most of these foot over bridges are not in appropriate place and some of
these are not usable. Moreover the people are accustomed to disobey the traffic
regulation, there are no strict rules and the people have little time to use foot over
bridges. As a result, pedestrian accident, fatalities are increasing over times and
pedestrian interruption the smooth vehicular flow in some busiest intersections. The
research tried to find out the attributes behind the ignoring of traffic laws by taking
interview of pedestrians. After studying attributes of foot over bridge usage for a
month, a lot of data and exclusive information are found. Later, the information has
been examined by statistical analysis.
 OBJECTIVES
 To investigate the efficiency of foot over
bridge in Dhaka north city.
 To assess the effectiveness of foot over bridge
for road accident.
 To identify the reasons for using foot over
bridge.

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METHODOLOGY OF WORK
Banani foot over bridge:
Banani foot over bridge map:

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 Non user of foot During Without signal In every minute
over bridge signal

256   203 53 14

         

User of foot over Normal stair Escalator In every minute

bridge

304   64 240 15
Interview of respondents :
The research team took interview of total 35 respondents and among
them users of foot over bridge are 19 and non-user were 16. Among them
male were 18 in number and female were 17.

Total respondents 31

User 15

Non user 16

Male 17 User 9

    Non user 8

Female 14 User 8

    Non user 6
 Profession of the pedestrians:
During research the profession of the pedestrians were in concern.
Profession NumberStatus
Students 5 User
  3 Non User
Business Man 2 User
  1 Non User
Job holder 6 User
  4 Non User
Worker 2 User
  2 Non User
House wife 1 User
  0 Non User
Others 2 User
Causes behind using foot over bridge :
The pedestrians use foot over bridge for different causes. Most of them use foot over
bridge to avoid accident. The study on Banani foot over bridge shows that 12
pedestrians use it to avoid accident and no one do this in fear of law enforcement

No Reasons of use Number of users

01 Consciousness 6
02 Avoiding accident 12
03 Ensure safety 9
04 Law enforcement 0
05 Absence of alternatives 1
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Reasons behind avoiding foot over bridge :
The team found some pedestrians who avoided foot over bridge. A lot of causes are there
for avoiding foot over bridge and most of them think that they avoid foot over bridge for
their lack of time. Not only general people but also police avoid foot over bridge to save
time. It is very dangerous that people give more priority to time than life!
No Reasons for not to use Number of non- users
01 Lack of time 11
02 Ineffectiveness of law 0
03 Lack of proper socialization 6
04 Weakness of traffic management 9
05 Inappropriate position 0
06 Lack of consciousness 5
07 Avoidance of difficulties 2
Recommendations :
The pedestrians provided some recommendations to make foot over bridge more useable.
Most of them suggested to strict the law enforcement to bounded people to follow the
traffic laws. The recommendations were collected from both user and nonusers.
No Recommendations Number of recommenders
01 Strict law enforcement 19
02 Raise consciousness 6
03 Motivation 5
04 Add escalator in both sides 3
05 Punishment 5
06 Security in foot over bridges 4
07 Obligation for use 6
08 Ensure sound environment 2
09 Increase publicity 2
10 Introduce mobile court 1
Picture
This is a very good foot over bridge with high modern facilities and there is no
reason to avoid it.

Picture : Moving stairs (Escalator) of foot over bridge

 RESULTS
Overall study of the data analysis and the Findings :
Here all the data has been given in the above articles. Now the data is evaluated in a
combined framework to bring out the final result of the study
Figure : Reasons of Using foot Over bridge
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Reasons of avoiding foot over bridges :

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Figure : Reasons of avoiding foot Over bridge
Public Recommendations :
Figure : Recommendations from pedestrians
Observation :
The research team observed on 3052 pedestrians for 85 minute in six
different foot over bridges. In that observation the team found that in every
minute 17 pedestrians use foot over bridge to cross the road while 12 people
avoid the traffic law and cross through the road. The team found that
42.76=43% people don’t use foot over bridge in every minute while
57.24=57% uses the bridge.

User 1747 57.24%

Non user 1305 42.76%

User per minute 21  

Non user per minute 16  

Percentage of every minute (User and nonuser ; round figure)

Figure : User and Non-user ratio 23

Profession of the interviewees :
The team tried to observe the profession of the interviewees. These will help to
understand the category of consciousness of pedestrians. It was found that students
are the most conscious pedestrians.

Profession Number Percentage

House wife 16 12.03
Student 45 33.83
Business Man 14 10.53
Job holder 36 27.07
Worker 6 4.51
Other 15 11.28
Sergeant 01   0.48
Figure : Profession of the pedestrians 25
Age of the pedestrians :
Not only the profession but also the age of the pedestrians was also analyzed to
understand in which age people use foot over bridge most. It was found that the people
of age 15-25 use foot over bridge most.

Age Number Percentage

15-25 63 47.37

26-35 36 27.07

36-45 16 12.03

46-55 14 10.53

56-70 04 3.01
Figure : Age of pedestrians
 CONCLUSION
 Everything is not possible to control either by law enforcement or by making people bound.
 People have to realize the necessity of using foot over bridge from their inner morality and
civic sense.
 A lot of highly educated people were found who were breaking basic laws.
 The highly responsible officials of the government break the laws here and there.
 It is really a matter of great shocking that both citizen and authority are irresponsible about
their own task.
 Avoiding law has become an unwritten law here.
 Every year almost 150 people are being died and a lot of are being injured in various road
accident in Dhaka city(North).
 To save lives we need to be social, because life will not come for second time.
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 RECOMMENDATIONS
All the risky points should be identified first through which
pedestrians cross the road. Then those need to be stopped by
strong and high barricade.
Those points where barricade is not possible for the free
movement traffic police should play the role of barricade.
Foot over bridges should be neat and clean and usable. Hawkers,
beggars, banners, garbage should be removed.
Over bridges should be friendly for the physically weak people.
For example the stair should be more flat (20 to 25 degree) instead
of 45 degree angle.
Instead of more foot over bridge underpass can be set up. The
underpasses should have enough lighting and citizen facilities.
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Thanks To All

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