EVALUATION OF THE ROADSIDE WALKWAY ENVIRONMENT OF DHAKA CITY Khan Rubayet Rahaman Graduate Student Department of Urban Engineering Tokyo University 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo ku Tokyo 113 8656, Japan Fax: +81-3- 5841-8527 Email: rubayet@ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Nobuaki OHMORI Lecturer Department of Urban Engineering Tokyo University 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo ku Tokyo 113 8656, Japan Fax: +81-3- 5841-8527 Email: nobuaki@ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Noboru HARATA Professor Department of Frontier Science Tokyo University 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo ku Tokyo 113 8656, Japan Fax: +81-3- 5841-8527 Email: nhara@ut.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Abstract: A comfortable environment makes a journey by foot pleasant and enjoyable. However, in Dhaka city, about 60% trips are making on foot but the pedestrians are facing many problems while using the walkways. It is because; the transport planners or researchers are always emphasizing the problems of the motorized vehicles. For instance, this paper tries to explore the qualitative level of comfort of the pedestrians in Dhaka City by offering Six broad categories of roadside walking environment in terms of i) safety, ii) security, iii) convenience and comfort, iv) continuity of the walkway, v) system coherence and vi) attractiveness by some specific facilities. Qualitative data have been collected from observation survey whereas the walker’s responses have been recorded through questionnaire survey from the field. By far, this study contributes the factors that are very important to assess the roadside walking environment in a developing country’s city with some attributes. Key Words: Pedestrians, Walkway, Dhaka City. Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 1751 - 1766, 2005 1751