Pedestrian safety perception and urban street settings
- 주제(키워드) Online-survey , pedestrian , safety perception , street design , street setting
- 주제(기타) Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
- 주제(기타) Environmental Studies
- 주제(기타) Transportation
- 설명문(일반) [Park, Yunmi] Ewha Womans Univ, Architectural & Urban Engn Syst, 323 Junsunmi Hall,52 Ewhayeodae Gil, Seoul 03760, South Korea; [Garcia, Max] Auburn Univ, Coll Architecture Design & Construct, Environm Design, Auburn, AL 36849 USA
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
- 발행년도 2020
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000174938
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2019.1641577
초록/요약
Design and construction professionals are entrusted to design built environments that can assure public safety. Crime statistics is one indicator that reflects the correlation between built environments and public safety. Acknowledging the perception of pedestrians, specifically their psychological and emotional reactions toward certain public space settings would be another effective parameter to develop a good foundation to create more livable and safer neighborhoods. With these in mind, the analyses in this study have attempted to explore the relationship between street conditions and the perception of pedestrian safety in Auburn Alabama, USA. The research design primarily consists of an online survey that obtained information about (1) respondents' brief personal characteristics, (2) their walking times, (3) their levels of anxiety regarding certain street settings based on daytime and nighttime photographs (closed-ended questions on a Likert scale from 1 to 5), and (4) their reasoning behind these ratings (open-ended). The results show that proper street lighting is the main contributor to enhancing the feeling of safety on streets followed by the morphologic complexity of streets formed by various business types, outdoor dining, street performers, and other pedestrian activities. Other than physical settings, the study also found that age and gender influenced the level of anxiety among pedestrians.
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