A Thesis Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Master of Business Administration in Construction management
Creators: name: BEREKET AKLILU SIME
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Walking is a basic human activity, and is usually the first and last mode used, providing an important link between land use and motorized travel. Pedestrian facilities are any pedestrian related infrastructures, such as crosswalks, intersections, and sidewalks. They provide the only mode of transit available to all people, able and disabled. Pedestrian safety is a critical issue in Ethiopia. Reports show that 50 to 60% of traffic fatality victims in the country are pedestrians (WHO, 2013a; 2009). Despite this, the pedestrian pathway of Addis Ababa is by far one of the lowest by any international standards, the streetscapes is a serious problem in the city, street furniture‘s are not well designed, in some active area of the city side walk width is not enough for people to walk. Therefore, removing obstacles and making safety for pedestrians has become a very integral part of any transport planning. The aim of this study is to investigate the challenges that are facing pedestrian pathway and its impacts on people movement from Imperial hotel to Gerjii (Roba Bakery) and it covers 1.2mile or around 2km. The study also enquires the rate of utilization, location appropriateness, spacing, and level of service of pedestrian pathway. Three local reference points along the Imperial hotel to Gerjii (Roba Bakery) road were selected. Guideline from HCM2010 was used to determine the Pedestrian Level of Service based on three flow rate (VP), average pedestrian space/area (AP) and volume to capacity ratio (V/C). Primary data like pedestrian count every 15-minute; questionnaire survey, field observation and pedestrian level of service measurements are used. Hence, in this study 185,012 pedestrian were observed during pedestrian count. The observation was made 20 meter distance of visually cleared in both directions of three selected locations. A total of 385 questioners were distributed to pedestrian users out of which 376 responded fully and 9 failed to complete the questionnaire. The result also showed that most of Pedestrian facilities like pedestrian amenities, availability and visibility conditions of crossing areas, streetlight and walkway surface quality, and walkway management was very poor. There is were no designated places for street venders and so they use spaces meant for pedestrian movement. The level of service of the facilities were computed by taking in to account of the volume of three more crowded pedestrians’ location (P1, P2, and P3) at each location volume of pedestrian and the overall facilities can accommodate pedestrians with a level of pedestrian level of service measurement at C, D but some parts fall to E at both morning and afternoon pick hours of Gerji Roba and Taxi Tera , and at off-pick hours all are fall at a level of pedestrian level of service measurement at A, this imply that of the pedestrian pathway is moderate walking condition to serve all pedestrians. Based on result these recommendations have been forwarded in respect of Addis Ababa Planning commission and Addis Ababa City Administration needs to focus on improving its transportation facilities, adequate and widely provision of road safety education, disability infrastructures, raised zebra crossing and connect to walkway with ramp, marking zebra crossing, constructing, maintenance and management of walkway. Improvement needs that can be achieved based on pedestrian’s awareness of the condition of the sidewalk found that the absence of disability infrastructures and using walkway to parking and washing, impact of road side vending, narrow, not comfortable and in accessibility of walkways are the most that need prioritization for improvements.