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Mr. Rahul M. Kasundra, AITS, Rajkot; Prof. Praful A. Shinkar ,AITS, Rajkot

Now a days, in urban areas facing problems is traffic congestion. Vehicular traffics are increasing on day to day. Vehicular traffic is directly effect on the pedestrian’s movements, safety and comforts. Pedestrian is one of the big road user group. Different needs of pedestrian should be considered in the design of the road transportation facilities. Rajkot is a main developing city in the region of saurashtra. It is attracting the peoples for doing different kinds of activities. Such as, finding new jobs, business, education and cultural activities etc. Now a day’s municipal corporation and government are focusing in the area of effective transportation facilities for road user. The pedestrian facilities are observed poor in some of the areas in Rajkot city such as Hospital Chowk etc. In this work, basic pedestrian traffic planning is taking for improve and effective pedestrian facilities at these intersections. By using the various types of traffic surveys, to check the pedestrian facilities and its behavior.