• Nayan Bhamare
• Girish Gadave
• Vijay Dhale

Walking is a significant mode of transport and all human beings are pedestrians for varying time periods on roads. Hence, they are vulnerable road users in traffic system. Pedestrian walking speed is a function of a pedestrian’s value of time, risk and capabilities. The ultimate goal of this study understands the relationships among pedestrian speed and flow and calculate free-flow walking speed of pedestrians. For this purpose, a series of field studies were conducted to quantify the walking speed and to identify the contributing factors which affects walking speed in the Navi Mumbai. Basic data on walking speeds and the chosen factors were collected by a photographic procedure of video recording through CCTV Servileance cameras already installed in CIDCO’s jurisdictions nodal area of Navi Mumbai. The video camera was placed to record the normal walking conditions. The pedestrian flow areas (four reference points forming a rectangle) were marked off on the sidewalks with a same length of 10 m, but effective widths of sidewalks were different at each location (2.5m and 7.5 m). The surveys were conducted both in peak and off-peak periods on the selected study sites. The speed of each of the pedestrians was determined on the basis of crossing time of the taken by the pedestrians to walk through the marked boundaries. The collected data was used to develop mathematical and graphical fundamental relationships of speed-Flow for the pedestrians. The free-flow speed is found to be more than 70 m/min (1.17 m/sec). Speeds are highest at the location I, around 120 m/min (2 m/sec) with sidewalk width is 2.5 m. Free-flow speeds are found to be less at location II, around 74.3 m/min (1.24 m/sec) with sidewalk width 2.5 m. Comparison with other studies the speeds reported is nearer to observed in Delhi, Madras, Chandigarh India and higher than observed in cities like Roorkee and Mumbai, India. Mean walking speeds are less than those observed worldwide studies conducted like London, Colombia, New York, Bangkok, Dhaka etc. The present study analyzed the pedestrian flow characteristics in New Mumbai, India & found to be comparable to those observed globally.

Pedestrian, Speed-Flow, Sidewalk, walking.

"Empirical Study of Pedestrian Flow Characteristics in Navi Mumbai", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.761-767, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906887.pdf

"Empirical Study of Pedestrian Flow Characteristics in Navi Mumbai", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp761-767, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906887.pdf