An Assessment of pedestrian infrastructures of road transport: A case study of Jimma Town

Tarekegn Reta Mesfin; Tolossa Jote Denbi

doi:10.14254/jsdtl.2022.7-2.3

Tarekegn Reta Mesfin ⁽¹⁾ , Tolossa Jote Denbi ⁽²⁾

(1) Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Assosa University, Assosa, 5220, Ethiopia , Ethiopia

(2) Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Assosa University, Assosa, 5220, Ethiopia , Ethiopia

https://doi.org/10.14254/jsdtl.2022.7-2.3

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2022)

Keywords:

infrastructures, pedestrian, P-index, star-rating

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Pedestrian infrastructures are a critical part of the sustainable transportation system of a city across the world. The key risks to pedestrians are well documented, including infrastructure in terms of the lack of dedicated pedestrian facilities, such as sidewalks, crossings, and raised medians. This paper aimed to assess pedestrian infrastructures of the road transport system in Jimma city. The P-index (Pedestrian-index) method was used to evaluate pedestrian infrastructures, computed with the formula containing the four pedestrian indicators: mobility, safety, pedestrian facility, and accessibility indicator. For this method, sixteen road segments were selected. The result of the mobility indicator shows that the star rating obtained was two stars, which means impaired mobility for the pedestrian. For safety, a 1-star of star-rating was obtained, indicating that the road segments were very unsafe. For the facility indicator, the star-rating value was 2-star which shows inadequate pedestrian facility. For the accessibility indicator, two star-rating was obtained, meaning there was poor accessibility to land uses by walking. Overall P-index value has got a 2-star rating that, which indicates that the existing roads were unfavorable to a pedestrian walking.

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Authors

Tarekegn Reta Mesfin

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Assosa University, Assosa, 5220, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-0964

tare.b.ayana@gmail.com (Primary Contact)

Tolossa Jote Denbi

Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Assosa University, Assosa, 5220, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-1236

Mesfin, T. R., & Denbi, T. J. (2022). An Assessment of pedestrian infrastructures of road transport: A case study of Jimma Town. Journal of Sustainable Development of Transport and Logistics, 7(2), 41–52. https://doi.org/10.14254/jsdtl.2022.7-2.3

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