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THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY

The number of annually registered vehicles in Malaysia keeps increasing at about 6% per annum, and this will be accompanied by the increase of potential risk in the congested streets where some pedestrians will suffer from the threats of dangerous accidents. From this point, providing footbridges...

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Main Author: HASAN, RAZI AZIZ
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling oai:utpedia.utp.edu.my:214182024-07-24T08:01:48Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/21418/ THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY HASAN, RAZI AZIZ TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The number of annually registered vehicles in Malaysia keeps increasing at about 6% per annum, and this will be accompanied by the increase of potential risk in the congested streets where some pedestrians will suffer from the threats of dangerous accidents. From this point, providing footbridges will be the best solution to avoid such type of risk, by separating pedestriansfrom vehicular traffic, and securing a safe path for pedestrians with no chance of collision with vehicles. In spite of these characteristics that secure absolute safety, this structure suffers from non-optimal performance resulting from non-compliance with the pedestrians to use the bridge. This researchaims to determine the most effective factors that affect the pedestrians' decision whether to utilize the footbridge or to cross on the street level. Thirteen factors were investigated by using the questionnaire, and the relative importance index method was used to determine the ranking of these factors. 2016-12 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/21418/1/2015%20-CIVIL%20-%20THE%20ASSESSMENT%20OF%20PEDESTRIAN%20FOOTBRIDGE%20USAGE%20IN%20MALAYSIA%3B%20THE%20CASE%20OF%20IPOH%20CITY-RAZI%20AZIZ%20HASAN.pdf HASAN, RAZI AZIZ (2016) THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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HASAN, RAZI AZIZ
THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
description The number of annually registered vehicles in Malaysia keeps increasing at about 6% per annum, and this will be accompanied by the increase of potential risk in the congested streets where some pedestrians will suffer from the threats of dangerous accidents. From this point, providing footbridges will be the best solution to avoid such type of risk, by separating pedestriansfrom vehicular traffic, and securing a safe path for pedestrians with no chance of collision with vehicles. In spite of these characteristics that secure absolute safety, this structure suffers from non-optimal performance resulting from non-compliance with the pedestrians to use the bridge. This researchaims to determine the most effective factors that affect the pedestrians' decision whether to utilize the footbridge or to cross on the street level. Thirteen factors were investigated by using the questionnaire, and the relative importance index method was used to determine the ranking of these factors.
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author HASAN, RAZI AZIZ
author_facet HASAN, RAZI AZIZ
author_sort HASAN, RAZI AZIZ
title THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
title_short THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
title_full THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
title_fullStr THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
title_full_unstemmed THE ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTBRIDGE USAGE IN MALAYSIA: THE CASE OF IPOH CITY
title_sort assessment of pedestrian footbridge usage in malaysia: the case of ipoh city
publishDate 2016
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/21418/1/2015%20-CIVIL%20-%20THE%20ASSESSMENT%20OF%20PEDESTRIAN%20FOOTBRIDGE%20USAGE%20IN%20MALAYSIA%3B%20THE%20CASE%20OF%20IPOH%20CITY-RAZI%20AZIZ%20HASAN.pdf
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