Anil Marsani

Tribhuvan University · Department of Civil Engineering

Modeling pedestrian level of service (PLOS) in developing countries, such as Nepal, is essential for effective planning, designing, and maintaining pedestrian facilities. PLOS provides valuable insights into the quality of the pedestrian environment and can serve as a basis for establishing standards for pedestrian facilities. This research attempt...

This study comprises defining Pedestrian level of service ranges from LOS A to F for footpath by k-means cluster analysis based on parameters speed, flow rate and space that were extracted from video graphic survey of different footpath of Kathmandu and Quality of Service (QOS) ranges by questionnaire survey. PLOS ranges based upon space from A to...

The crossing movement of the pedestrian across the road at mid-block locations illegally leads to high risk of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. This study is concentrated on the size of the vehicular gaps accepted by the pedestrian for crossing at mid-block section of the ring road. The middle four lanes which are free from the disturbance of the temp...

Driver yielding at pedestrian crossings is essential for the safety of all road users. While driver yielding behavior may depend upon various road and road-user characteristics, this study investigates driver yielding behavior for twelve variables. Data is extracted from six study locations and analyzed by using binary logistic regression. The fina...

This paper comprises development of entry capacity model to estimate entering vehicles from an approach of roundabouts for mix traffic conditions in Nepal. Entry flow, circulating flow and other geometrical data were taken from the roundabouts of cities like Chitwan and Itahari. The flow of the vehicles in these roundabouts, were video recorded fro...

Value of Travel Time (VOT) is a critical cost-benefit analysis component in every transportation undertaking. It reflects the amount of money that a road user is able to pay or is willing to pay in exchange for saving their unit travel time. The VOT is based on the value of the trip, mode of transportation used, and demographic characteristics of t...

Airport Pavement Management System (APMS) is used worldwide for pavement management at airports for optimizing the timing and type of maintenance activities. Pavement Condition Index (PCI) is used as the indicator of pavement condition in APMS to track the pavement deterioration over the years. In Nepal, maintenance in airport pavements is carried...

Value of travel time is one of the crucial factors in evaluating the benefits of transport infrastructure investment decisions. Value of travel time (VTT), monetary value attached to travel time, is undervalued in Nepal. The study focuses on determining value of travel time along with value attached to reliability associated with commuters in Kathm...

In Nepal, there are many emerging towns and cities due to rapid urbanizations which have arose issues of increased traffic density resulting in frequent road crashes like in Kalanki Koteshwor Ring Road Section. This study presents six stage methodological framework for ranking road safety hazardous locations based on Analytical Hierarchy Process (A...

This study investigates the passengers' satisfaction and operational performance of the public transportation system in Lamachour Chhorepatan route in Pokhara. The Passengers' satisfaction is studied on the basis of questionnaire survey using 13 different sets of indicators. The results thus obtained from questionnaire survey was analyzed with the...

This research tries to investigate the effect of countdown timer on the performance of signalized intersection at saturation flow rate, delay and start-up lost time. Two approaches of two different signalized intersections with a countdown timer have been studied for the present study. The data were collected at both intersection, with and without...

Microsimulation environment has been widely used for the evaluation of a network under various conditions. However, only few studies have been done for the safety performance evaluation of networks and are rarely performed in the Nepalese context. Such evaluation of an intersection is usually done with the statistical analysis of the crash data col...

The main objective of intersection design is to facilitate the convenience, comfort and safety of people traversing the intersection by enhancing the efficient movement of road users. The intersections on urban roads in Nepal generally cater heterogeneous motorized traffic, along with slow-moving traffic including pedestrians. It is therefore neces...

Crash prediction models (CPMs) have been used in many countries as a useful tool for road safety analysis and design. Each model is different in terms of methodology, data accuracy, variability in highway geometry and explanatory variables used to predict crashes. The model used in this research are based on Generalized Linear Modelling Technique....

Consistency of design refers to the conformance of the highway's geometry to driver expectancy. Drivers make fewer error in the vicinity of the geometric features that conform to their expectation. A technique to evaluate the consistency tool require the ability to accurately predict speed as a function of roadway geometry. In this research paper a...

Crash prediction models (CPMs) have been used in many countries as a useful tool for road safety analysis and design. Each model is different in terms of methodology, data accuracy, variability in highway geometry and explanatory variables used to predict crashes. The model used in this research are based on Generalized Linear Modelling Technique....

A standout amongst the most critical safety issues in any highways and road networks include the interactions of vehicles and pedestrians. A significant number of traffic crashes and fatalities involve pedestrians. Basically all the interactions among pedestrians and vehicles happen as pedestrians cross the roadway at intersections and at mid-block...

User satisfaction is an intrinsic aspect of any service and since public transport is a service based supply, it has to be continuously assessed for user satisfaction. This paper aims at depicting the results of the hybrid approach based on user satisfaction and multi criteria decision making, applied for the ranking of the public bus alternatives...

There are various factors which are related to Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs). In this study, Logistic Regression is used to estimate the severity of factors related to RTCs in Kathmandu Valley. The dependent variable is the Crash Severity (Fatal or Non-Fatal). The independent variables are crash cause, vehicle type, age & sex of the driver at fault,...

New-Baneshwor is one of the major junctions and also known as the heart of the Kathmandu Valley. This place consists of all the major educational institution, hospitals, a wide range of market, and most important "constitutional assembly" of the country. So it is one of the busiest places of Kathmandu Valley with high density traffic. The main caus...

Kathmandu valley is experiencing rapid population growth resulting in unexpected vehicular growth, especially private vehicles, which are leading to various traffic problems such as undesirable level of congestion, pollution, safety problem and delay. Matighar-Tinkune road section is one of the major road of the Kathmandu valley but due to lack of...

The aim of coordinating traffic signals is to provide smooth flow of traffic along streets and highways in order to reduce travel time, stops and delay. This research was carried out to investigate the benefits of signal coordination by means of traffic microsimulation software, PTV Vissim. After calibrating Vissim, signal coordination was performe...

The importance of understanding the relationship between various traffic flow parameter, especially speed, flow and density is unquestionable from the perspective of planning, design, traffic operations and improvement of facilities. Various conventional macroscopic speed-density models namely Greenshields, Greenberg, Underwood, Drake, Pipes – Munj...

This paper investigates behavior of different types of public vehicles in the bus bay. Understanding the behavior of different vehicles in the bus bay is necessary to determine the inefficiencies and safety issues associated with the current operations at the bus stops. This includes location where they stop, duration of their stopping, activities...

Intersection is the most crucial element of road network as it affects the performance and productivity of the whole network significantly. The intersection performance is usually measured via delay and saturation flow rate. This research work determines an equivalency factor (PCU values) for different categories of vehicles and a basic saturation...

This paper first points out the root causes of traffic problem in the capital city of Nepal (Kathmandu) and hence some of the remedial measures to solve the problems are put forward along with the introduction of the concept of urban traffic management planning which is relatively new in the context of Nepal. At last this paper gives a comprehensiv...