ALKÜ Fen Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: İbrahim Khalil UMAR, Samir Bashir, Abba Mas’ud ALFANDA, Abdulwarith Ibrahim BB Farouk

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Pedestrians,Foot Bridge,Kano

Özet: Pedestrian crossing facilities such as crosswalk, pedestrian foot bridges overpass and underpass at intersection or midblock with crossing facilities are designed to separate pedestrians from the moving vehicles hence improving safety of the pedestrians. Questionnaire survey was used to determine the factors influencing use and utilization of foot bridge by pedestrians in Kano city, Nigeria. The survey results show that 70% of the respondents were frequent users of the bridge while 30% were found not be using it. Analysis of the survey result shows that age and gender were statistically significant in the utilisation of the bridge with p-value of 0.041 and 0.002 respectively while education level was found to be statistically insignificant p-value = 0.688. The major reasons influencing pedestrian to use the bridge were safety (66%), barricades (25%), then traffic flow (9%). For the pedestrians that does not use the bridge, they describe the bridge height (38.5%) as the major reason for not using the bridge followed by poor design of the ramps (26.5%). Improving the design of the bridges and using escalators will surely enhance use of the foot bridges by the pedestrians in Kano city.

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