Assessment Of The Addis Ababa Light Railway Transit Project Success: The Users Perspective

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2017-06-16

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Addis Ababa University

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The purpose of this study is to assess the Addis Ababa Light Railway Transit Project Success from the users‟ perspective in the line of East-West Light Railway Transit, Due to this plan; people are forced to use only Stations and Squares to cross, as a result of this problems like high number of pedestrians flow on stations, high traffic congestion in station areas, and high fuel consumption are pervasive. The objectives of this research are to assess the challenges that pedestrians and drivers are facing and to assess the stakeholders‟ involvement in the project planning and implementation. To attain those objectives of the study; the researcher used descriptive research designs. The universes of study were Drivers and Pedestrians and sample sizes for pedestrians were 97. The researcher used probability sampling technique to select 97 pedestrians on the selected stations which was Simple random sampling and convenient sampling to select a representative from the railway corporation and to select an expert. In addition to that the researcher used three different kinds of data gathering tools which were Questionnaire, Interview, and Document Analysis. The result of the study was that, the design plan of the railway was adapted from Chain, the pedestrians and drivers are facing a challenge, safeties of pedestrians were not considered during the project plan, most pedestrian don‟t feel safety when crossing, more CO2were released to the environment due to congestion near stations and the involvement of stakeholders were not sufficient, In addition to that thought the society were affected by the project implementation they were not considered as a stakeholder.

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Joint Project Planning, Attendees, Society Involvement

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