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MEASURING PEDESTRIANS’ SATISFACTION OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT UNDER TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD): A CASE STUDY OF BANGKOK METROPOLITAN, THAILAND Pawinee Iamtrakul; Junyi Zhang
Lowland Technology International Vol 16 No 2, Dec (2014)
Publisher : International Association of Lowland Technology

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The problem of continuous increasing of carbon dioxide emissions in line with higher energy demand in Thailand has been called for attention under global warming conditions. In order to tackle with this problem, transportation was found as a major sector in an escalation of energy consumption which is the cause of carbon emission. As a developing country, infrastructure development has always been focused on an increasing of supply side, while less promote on public transportation and almost ignore for nonmotorization. The purpose of this study is to propose the method for measuring factors associated with pattern of walking behavior in connecting to public transportation usage by selecting Bangkok Mass Transit System as a case study. The results demonstrated different dimension of built environment aspects influence on different level of pedestrians’ satisfaction. Thus, transportation planners should consider different context of urban area as a key parameter to provide future metropolitan transportation while allocate appropriate strategy and management policy to create walkable urban place to shift in travel mode from vehicles to transit or active transportation.
APPLYING THE IMAGES CITY VALUE TO IMPROVE THE IDENTITY OF WUALAI’S LOWLAND COMMUNITY IN THAILAND Umpiga Shummadtayar; Kazunori Hokao; Pawinee Iamtrakul
Lowland Technology International Vol 14 No 1, June (2012)
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Each of developing communities is interested in basic improvement and sustainable development plan as especially for ‘lowland environmental’, ‘community identity’ and ‘social value’. This paper clear to recognize and create value that impress people in community and visitor in which the space syntax theory that the urban area can be represented as a matrix of connected spaces. There were explained to the physical problems; the historical part and perception of a city image and improving the image of community identity, environment and social value. Particularly, the resident perception on damage of the city could be forming of image and creating social networks with life satisfaction or community living. Based on physical environment and network functional related to develop the design guideline, suitable model and policy framework. To concludes by reach to a greater understanding of city image and discovers how to quantify its importance for each particular case study in term of ‘identity’, ‘structure’ and ‘meaning’. Moreover, this information can support decision-makers to policies plan by prioritizing certain aspects depending on the sense of place by sample groups. These suitable model, though to the methodological proposal idea can be extrapolated to other cities, as a process for measuring city identity image.