Skywalk Essay

Since the 1960s, skyway systems (also known as skywalk systems) have become an important feature in many cities around the world. Ahmedabad is the largest city and former capital of the Indian state of Gujarat. With growing population, congestion, pollution and related issues, that are facing mobility accessibility problems, and the governments have become more supply oriented and thus preoccupied in building more roads, flyovers that they have completely neglected the most ancient mode of transport. Walking is a universal phenomenon but generally not considered as a transport mode because it does not employ vehicles as modes. The term “Pedestrian” is used to recognize the fact that the approach to pedestrian pathway development must be as scientific and systematic as the …show more content…
A few cities have diluted the complexity of the problem to some extent by the construction and operation of skywalk systems. A skywalk provides vertical separation of pedestrian and vehicular movements and, along with street level sidewalks, represents a unified system of pedestrian facilities in the central business districts. Pedestrian skywalk is, in practice, very much a transportation system management technique. Pedestrian modelling is a complex behavioral and engineering issue. Of interest to urban transport planners is both the behavioral side i.e., how pedestrians move in relation to other pedestrians, how they decide to cross the road, how they make route choice decisions and the engineering side, i.e., how traffic control measures affect pedestrian travel times [2]. Various modelling approaches have attempted to take into account these aspects, mostly independent of each other. Pedestrian specific micro-simulation techniques have