Study on waiting time for street crossing by Person with disability- A case study of midblock crossing at Jorpati and Sanothimi

Abstract

Individuals with disabilities often find Nepal’s road challenging to navigate independently. They require volunteers, particularly when it comes to crossing the street. When they approach a junction, the majority of drivers don’t seem to slow down their vehicles. As a result, pedestrians experience anxiety when crossing the roadway. The purpose of this study is to examine how pedestrians with disabilities start to cross the street successfully, with a focus on two groups: pedestrians with physical disabilities and pedestrians who are blind, who were contrasted with pedestrians without disabilities. Mid-block crossings of Jorpati and Sanothimi were chosen for the study’s objectives. A video camera was used to record the behavior of pedestrian crossings, and survival analysis and the hazard ratio were used to analyze the data. To better understand the overall behavior of pedestrians with disabilities, a questionnaire was also filled out. Further criteria taken into account for study included the status of the disability, the traffic gap, the pace of the pedestrians, the gender, and the number of vehicles encountered. Participants in mid-block crossings of Jorpati were primarily physically disabled, whereas Sanothimi’s pedestrians were primarily