Development of Pedestrian Safety Index for Model for a Tier-Ii City: A Case Study on Mysuru

Safe footpath, safe Road, safe vehicle and safe driver are the four important key factors along with safe environment. As Road engineers, the safe design of Road infrastructure is very important and pedestrian safety auditing provides a vital role in ensuring that that the footpaths are built to the highest safety standard. Practical footpath safety auditing provides solutions to safety problems and also brings together safety audit procedures to be followed by the agency, local authorities and other organizations involved in safety aspect. There is strong need to practice pedestrian safety auditing before, during and after construction of footpaths in order to minimize pedestrian accidents. Based on the local conditions and adopted methodologies for the planning & design the footpaths can be made safer for pedestrian. So, it is very important to identify the pedestrian safety audit parameters with reference to a given set of conditions and aggregate these parameters to a composite index (Pedestrian Safety Index -PSI). The rating of a given footpath based on priority (black spots) locations and the development of relative weightages to various parameters as received by experts, research scientists, local authorities and also pedestrians using qualitative approach. This index measures the safety performance.