Pragya Khand Thakuri’s scientific contributions

The number of vehicles in Kathmandu Valley is growing at a rate of 12 percent per year. Manual traffic management is time-consuming and stressful nowadays. The purpose of this research is to calibrate VISSIM for mixed traffic conditions. This research was carried out in the Ekantakuna intersection study area. The data were collected during peak hours of 8:30 to 10:30 AM on weekdays and weekends, using video that covered all four directions. The relation between the field volume and VISSIM volume was obtained with a R squared value of 0.9977, indicating that the variance of VISSIM output explains 99.77 percent of the variance in the field data. Pedestrian modeling and pedestrian-vehicle interaction have not been investigated.