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Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff

Transit stations are generally well known as nodes of spaces where percentage of people walking are relatively high. The issue is do more planning is actually given to create walkability. Creating walking led transit stations involves planning of walking distance, providing facilities like pathways,...

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Main Authors: Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah, Azmi, Nur Farhana, Yusoff, Suhaini
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Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak 2020
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NA Architecture
Architecture in relation to special subjects
Human factors and architecture
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spelling my.uitm.ir.540562022-03-10T12:14:12Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54056/ Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah Azmi, Nur Farhana Yusoff, Suhaini NA Architecture Architecture in relation to special subjects Human factors and architecture Transit stations are generally well known as nodes of spaces where percentage of people walking are relatively high. The issue is do more planning is actually given to create walkability. Creating walking led transit stations involves planning of walking distance, providing facilities like pathways, toilets, seating and lighting. On the other hand, creating walking led transit station for women uncover a new epitome. Walking becomes one of the most important forms of mobility for women in developing countries nowadays. Encouraging women to use public transportation is not just about another effort to promote the use of public transportation but also another great endeavour to reduce numbers of traffic on the road. This also means, creating an effort to control accidents rate, reducing carbon emission, improving health and eventually, developing the quality of life. Hence, in this paper, we sought first to find out the factors that motivate women to walk at transit stations in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey with 562 female user of Light Railway Transit (LRT) was conducted at LRT stations along Kelana Jaya Line. Both built and non-built environment characteristics, particularly distance, safety and facilities were found as factors that are consistently associated with women walkability. With these findings, the paper highlights the criteria which are needed to create and make betterment of transit stations not just for women but also for walkability in general. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak 2020-06 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54056/1/54056.pdf ID54056 Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah and Azmi, Nur Farhana and Yusoff, Suhaini (2020) Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff. Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Environment (MySE), 7 (1). pp. 101-114. ISSN 0128-326X http://www.myse.my/
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topic NA Architecture
Architecture in relation to special subjects
Human factors and architecture
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Architecture in relation to special subjects
Human factors and architecture
Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah
Azmi, Nur Farhana
Yusoff, Suhaini
Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
description Transit stations are generally well known as nodes of spaces where percentage of people walking are relatively high. The issue is do more planning is actually given to create walkability. Creating walking led transit stations involves planning of walking distance, providing facilities like pathways, toilets, seating and lighting. On the other hand, creating walking led transit station for women uncover a new epitome. Walking becomes one of the most important forms of mobility for women in developing countries nowadays. Encouraging women to use public transportation is not just about another effort to promote the use of public transportation but also another great endeavour to reduce numbers of traffic on the road. This also means, creating an effort to control accidents rate, reducing carbon emission, improving health and eventually, developing the quality of life. Hence, in this paper, we sought first to find out the factors that motivate women to walk at transit stations in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey with 562 female user of Light Railway Transit (LRT) was conducted at LRT stations along Kelana Jaya Line. Both built and non-built environment characteristics, particularly distance, safety and facilities were found as factors that are consistently associated with women walkability. With these findings, the paper highlights the criteria which are needed to create and make betterment of transit stations not just for women but also for walkability in general.
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author Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah
Azmi, Nur Farhana
Yusoff, Suhaini
author_facet Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah
Azmi, Nur Farhana
Yusoff, Suhaini
author_sort Shamsul Harumain, Yong Adilah
title Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
title_short Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
title_full Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
title_fullStr Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
title_full_unstemmed Creating walking led transit stations for women in Malaysia / Yong Adilah Shamsul Harumain, Nur Farhana Azmi and Suhaini Yusoff
title_sort creating walking led transit stations for women in malaysia / yong adilah shamsul harumain, nur farhana azmi and suhaini yusoff
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak
publishDate 2020
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54056/1/54056.pdf
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