Critical analysis of students’ perception on pedestrian environment in a Malaysian public university
During the last decade transportation in Malaysia has been changed and stepped forward into motorized-transportation. However, Malaysian government started to move toward sustainable society, which sustainable transportation is one of the parts. University Putra Malaysia’s (UPM) Serdang campus is...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/70458/1/FRSB%202014%2021%20-%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | During the last decade transportation in Malaysia has been changed and stepped
forward into motorized-transportation. However, Malaysian government started to
move toward sustainable society, which sustainable transportation is one of the parts.
University Putra Malaysia’s (UPM) Serdang campus is mainly dependent on the
personal cars and shuttle buses. Furthermore, routes in the campus mainly planned
for the vehicles rather than pedestrians and cyclists. This study was trying to achieve
two objectives: A) to document pedestrian environment physical determinants for a
university campus. B) To examine physical environment factors that encourages
UPM’s students to do pedestrian activities in the campus. Reviewing the literature
found that four main factors (functionality, safety, aesthetics, facility) are commonly
used to understand walkability of a pedestrian environment. Twenty nine attributes
were also identified to be relevant and were utilized as an indicator for each of the
four factors. In this study quantitative method through questionnaire survey has
selected to assess the variables on a sample of subject and express the relationship
between variables by using statistical calculations, such as correlations, relative
frequencies, description and cross tabulation or the focus is to a large extent on the
answering the research questions. Analysis indicated that students were more
concern about the safety and particularly majority of the respondents reported
lighting as the most important safety item of the pedestrian environment. This
awareness was more significant for females in comparison to the results obtained for
males. Additionally, canopy was on the top of the list as an extremely important
facility that should be developed and improved. This research can be helpful for the
UPM’s policy makers and master planners to facilitate in documenting pedestrian
environment literature, as well as help urban designers and city planners to have a
deeper perspective of pedestrian perceptions and opinions in tropical climate and
particularly Malaysia. |
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