• Puttapaka Niranjan
• Prof. D. Rajashekar Reddy

Pedestrian level of service (PLOS) is a tool to measure the performance of the facility provided for movement of the pedestrian. Estimation of PLOS is the most common approach to assess quality of operations of pedestrian facilities. There is no suitable methodology is available for Indian context where street vendor is a predominant factor, which reduces the mobility and safety of the pedestrian. As per IRC design guidelines the street vendors are excluded from the design for footpath. So far very few studies were carried out regarding integrating street vendors in footpath design guidelines. This study tries to suggest improvement for the existing conditions of footpaths facing worst pedestrian level of service with street vendors. In the present study five types of areas are selected based on their land use namely, residential area, institutional area, commercial area, recreational area and terminal area. One sidewalk is selected in each of the above areas and by using camera mounted on elevated points (roof tops, metro walkways etc...) pedestrians data and vehicle data is recorded over a selected stretch of road and sidewalk, data analysed and used to make the micro-simulation model of each sidewalk with street vendors in PTV VISWALK software, so that it should be calibrated for the existing condition of a sidewalk and after successful simulations the results are noted and few proposals are made based on the questionnaire survey of pedestrians and street vendors for improvement in the existing condition, Pedestrian level of service of sidewalk without altering the pedestrian volume on sidewalk in the proposed models.

PLOS, micro simulation in PTV VISWALK, IRC design guidelines and sidewalk.

"A STUDY ON PEDESTRIAN LEVEL OF SERVICE OF SIDEWALKS USING PTV VISWALK ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 8, page no.f685-f692, August-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2408684.pdf

"A STUDY ON PEDESTRIAN LEVEL OF SERVICE OF SIDEWALKS USING PTV VISWALK ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 8, page no. ppf685-f692, August-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2408684.pdf