Study On Existing Pedestrian Traffic and Facility Study on Major Roads in Salem and Formulate Suggestions for Its Improvement

Walking is an important mode of transport. In urban areas a significant proportion of trips up to 1-2Kms in length are performed on foot. Moreover every journey necessarily starts and ends as a walk trip. Since pedestrian are more vulnerable to being involved in accidents, it is imperative that adequate consideration should be given to their safety through provision of facilities like guard rails, secured crossing areas, footpath and grade separations. Pedestrian facilities should be planned in an integrated manner so as to ensure a continuous pedestrian flow. It should be useful therefore to look at pedestrian needs for an area as a whole and prepare an overall strategic plan. The basic aim should be to reduce pedestrian conflicts with vehicular traffic to the minimum. Efforts should be made to create such conditions that pedestrian are not forced to walk in unsafe circumstances and that the motorist respects the position of pedestrian. While planning the convenient of pedestrian should be paramount consideration. Otherwise the facilities provided will not be fully used. Suggestions formulated as traffic management schemes to provide safety to the pedestrians by reducing conflict in between vehicle movement and pedestrians..