Gender differences in a walking environment safety perception: A case study in a small town of Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)

Rišová, Katarína; Madajová, Michala Sládeková

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102723

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“…For instance, Hatamzadeh et al [52] found that the negative effect of walking distance was greater for females on working trips, but was greater among males in the case of shopping trips. In turn, females tend to be more cautious about the safety and security risks associated with walking than males [53,54]. Elderly pedestrians and seniors may have more time and flexibility to walk, but due to aging, they not only lose some skills, such as less walking speed, stable balance and wayfinding capabilities, but also have more unsafe crossing behaviors [2,5].…”

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“…These individuals were asked to clarify: (i) the purpose/reason of their utilitarian walking; (ii) the daily average walking time; and Regarding the first phase of the work, it was decided to collect travel data from the community living and commuting to the central areas of Bologna and Porto by using a web-based questionnaire. Questionnaires are tools that have been widely adopted for collecting individual travel data [51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. The first step of the work consisted of developing the questionnaire according to research goals of SPN.…”

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Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

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Walking is a mode of transport that offers many environmental and health benefits. Utilitarian walking refers to walking trips undertaken to fulfil routine purposes. The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which walking is used as a transport mode for short urban trips in the city centers of Bologna and Porto and the barriers preventing utilitarian walking. Based on a questionnaire (n = 1117) administered in the two cities, results indicated that 21% of the individuals travel by foot, while 47% combine walking with other modes. This means that 68% of the daily trips to these city centers involve walking activity. From the overall trips, 84% were made to reach work and school/university. Statistical tests showed that utilitarian walkers were more likely to be females (p < 0.001) and undergraduates (p < 0.001). People from Bologna were more likely to engage in utilitarian walking than people from Porto (p < 0.001). Travel distance and time were the main barriers preventing people from engaging in utilitarian walking. The findings described in this paper provide a better understanding of utilitarian walking in the central areas of both cities, which can guide policies to promote healthier lifestyles and sustainable mobility.

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Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

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“…On the local level (the capitals of both countries), we used methods of spatial gravity and standard deviational ellipse to analyze the migration trends and spatial distribution characteristics of shopping centers [9,51]. As Shi et al [9] (p. 95) noted, the spatial gravity of shopping centers is an important index for the measurement of shopping center distribution and is represented by points where the spatial forces of all the shopping centers in the region are in balance.…”

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Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

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The aim of the paper is to critically evaluate the similarities and differences in the development of the temporal and spatial structure of shopping centers in the Czech and Slovak republics. We focused on the retail transformation and sustainable manifestations of the location and construction of shopping centers. We classified shopping centers according to their genesis, location in the city, and size of the gross leasable area. To analyze migration trends and geographic distribution characteristics of shopping centers in the capital cities of both countries (local level of analysis), we used spatial gravity and standard deviational ellipse. Generally, there is an analogous trend in the development of shopping centers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with a particular two- to four-year lag in Slovakia (west–east gradient). Despite this, we still perceive the demand for shopping centers in both countries as above average, and it is not declining. The construction of shopping centers, mainly in small towns, also indicates this trend. In Prague and Bratislava, the pattern of spatial expansion of shopping centers differs. Prague probably represents a more advanced phase of shopping center agglomeration. However, neither country has reached the state of clustering.

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“…No âmbito dos atributos propriamente de infraestrutura, destacam-se a acessibilidade universal, que, por meio de elementos como rampas, piso tátil, painéis informativos em braile etc., inclui pessoas com as mais diversas características antropométricas e sensoriais, como pessoas com restrição de mobilidade (Bentzen et al, 2020;Pembuain, Priyanto e Suparma, 2020); a drenagem, para garantir ao usuário, por meio de medidas que auxiliem o escoamento de águas pluviais, que não haja acúmulo de água na superfície do passeio e, assim, não comprometa a segurança do pedestre em um possível desvio de sua rota pelo leito dos carros (Hermida, Cordero e Orellana, 2019); e a iluminação, que deve garantir condições mínimas para o tráfego de pedestres quando não há luz natural nas calçadas, nas faixas de travessia, interseções, passarelas e outros trechos de rota de pedestres (Lamour, Morelli e Marins, 2019;Rišová e Madajová, 2020).…”

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Para promover a caminhada nas cidades é necessário prover condições adequadas de infraestrutura relacionadas às calçadas. No entanto, são inú-meras as variáveis que podem interferir na percepção da qualidade das cal-çadas por parte dos usuários dessas vias. Dessa forma, esse estudo se pro-põe a apresentar um método de avaliação da qualidade das calçadas utili-zando um índice ponderado com base em análises geoespaciais e na percep-ção dos usuários. As análises quantitativas realizadas envolvem a aplicação da lógica fuzzy, e as técnicas Delphi e Schulze. O método foi aplicado na área central de uma cidade brasileira de pequeno porte localizada no esta-do do Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados do estudo são discutidos com base na seleção dos atributos importantes para a caminhada e ponderação e per-cepção desses atributos. De uma maneira geral, a análise de sensibilidade mostra que o método é adequado e que, portanto, consegue transmitir dire-tamente as experiências vivenciadas no ambiente urbano. Assim, este estudo contribui com a proposição de um método que pode ser utilizado por plane-jadores urbanos para tomar decisões relacionadas a políticas públicas vol-tadas a mobilidade de pedestres.

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Gender differences in a walking environment safety perception: A case study in a small town of Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)

Cited by 49 publications

References 62 publications

Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

Transformation and Sustainable Development of Shopping Centers: Case of Czech and Slovak Cities

Avaliação ponderada sobre a percepção da infraestrutura de calçadas por meio da técnica Delphi-Fuzzy e análises geoespaciais

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