Abstract:
This study aims to develop and test a methodology to extract pedestrian speed data from
video footage and to find the pedestrian walking speed Sri Lankans. This study was done in the
premises of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna. Pedestrians were walking across a
measured length was videotaped and the resulting footage was analysed after breaking the footage into
frames. For each pedestrian walking event sex of the subject and the starting and ending clock times
were recorded. Results showed that sex of the pedestrian did not have a significant effect on the
walking speed of the pedestrians. Further, results showed that test subjects walked with a 15th
percentile speed of 1.20 m/s. This walking speed is as par with the USA walking speed and faster than
the Singaporeans’ walking speed when compared with the speeds reported in the previous studies.
However it is noted that this walking speed may go down if we include more test subjects from elderly
age category.
