Street Crossing Infrastructure for the People With Disability In Addis Ababa: The Case of Visually Impaired Persons
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dagnachew Adugna (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hana Bulto Dida | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-29T13:03:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-29T13:03:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-12-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Street crossing is the most common infrastructural issue worldwide for disability as it is the basic space and needs treatment to fully function particularly for visually impaired people. In the case of developing countries, the street crossing barriers are numerous; that the disable person needs the special consideration in every design and construction of engineering structure. Therefore, the increased risks of the visually impaired persons were multi-factorial events in both their causes and outcomes. The objectives of this thesis are identifying the major barriers occurred on visually impaired persons while crossing the streets, identify and map the major street crossing problematic areas for the visually impaired persons, investigate the major problems linked with poor street crossings for the visually impaired persons. The research aims to give a resource for the researcher‘s as primary information for further investigation about the problem. Most important element of problem analysis was to evaluate the street crossing problems for disables versus street infrastructure in Addis Ababa City. This research was, therefore, an attempt to address these issues and to require a systematic analysis to evolve possible solutions and their counter measures to solve the problem. The research methods which were employed in this study includes survey, historical analysis, case studies etc. and use the research case study for the qualitative approach as a strategy for these proposals. The findings of the study reveal on the major squares of Ethiopia the problems that the visually impaired persons face was very high due to the high population density, cars, street furniture, street signals, vegetation, and the design and construction materials used. To minimize the problems on the visual and visually impaired person the well corporation of the street furniture and designing the street crossing tunnel and bridge were needed by taking the design philosophy from the well designed and developed city of the world. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2643 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.title | Street Crossing Infrastructure for the People With Disability In Addis Ababa: The Case of Visually Impaired Persons | |
| dc.type | Thesis |