| Abstrakt: |
Bangladesh is heavily dependent on its Ready-Made Garment (RMG) industry which serves as the primary contributor to foreign currency inflows, employment opportunities, and socio-economic advancement within the country. For most RMG workers, the primary mode of transport is walking, encompassing both their journey to and from work, and pedestrian safety is a major issue around the world, especially in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aims to explore RMG workers' traffic safety perception, particularly from a pedestrian's perspective. To explore the safety perception of RMG workers, a questionnaire survey was conducted among RMG workers at most prominent road accident zones. A questionnaire survey was administered to 1020 RMG workers at some of the factories in high vehicle-pedestrian collision areas. An analysis using a multiple linear regression model was carried out in order to analyze the factors that might affect RMG workers' safety perception. The findings of the study revealed a notable variation in the pedestrian safety perception with the worker's gender, income, education, number of children, physical disability, mode of transport, transport cost, average weekly walk duration, distance from home to work, previous accident experience and source of road safety information. Therefore, policymakers and transportation engineers need to target these at-risk RMG groups when developing pedestrian safety improvement programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
