• Sanket Chandrakant Mistry
• Jayesh Juremalani
• Vilin Parekh

India as a county of multiple religion having too many religious events celebrated throughout a year. On every religious event pedestrian devotees crowd gathered at respective religious places. So, to understand the variation in pedestrian devotees flow and composition of pedestrian devotees flow during specific religious event the present study conducted at Swaminarayan Temple Bharuch. The data has been collected on Diwali by using video recording of 3 hours. Total 2497 no of pedestrian has been observed on the event day. The peak hour has been identified as 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm with an flow of 1017 pedestrians per hour. The pedestrians flow has been categorised gender wise in four different categories namely Children 5-18 years, Youngster 18-35 years, Mid-Age 35-60 years and Senior Citizen 60 years and above. The data analysis enables that youngster and mid age pedestrians are dominating the pedestrian flow having 41% share of total flow. Also the study enables that the share of senior citizens is also considerable with due concerns safety.

Pedestrian, Devotees, Religious Event, Pedestrian Flow

"Variation in Pedestrian Flow During Religious Event", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no.185-189, April-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804258.pdf

"Variation in Pedestrian Flow During Religious Event", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no. pp185-189, April-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804258.pdf