نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
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Non-motorized modes of transportation, especially walking, have always been the cleanest and healthiest way of human movement. Despite the fact that walking conditions for women are different from men, only in recent years, urban planners and policy makers of developing countries have investigated these gender differences. Considering the limitations of women's walking behavior studies in Iran, this research examines the effective factors and their impact on the duration of walking for the case study of women's non-work trips in Shiraz city. The questionnaire designed for this research (including economic, social and travel characteristics of people) was collected during the Corona epidemic (year 1400) through internet questioning. The dependent variable (walk duration) has been asked on a continuous scale, which, based on the results of descriptive statistical analysis, has been categorized into four options with thresholds of 10, 20 and 40 minutes for 308 observations to model its discrete choice. The reason for this classification is (based on literature and common sense) that people are sensitive to specific time intervals against time continuously (on a minute scale). The payment results of the multinomial logit model show that the optimal duration of walking is different according to the purpose of the trip, and (according to the positive coefficient of the dummy variable of the purpose of the shopping and club trip in the option of less than 10 minutes), the desirability of walking is the highest in this time period. The results also show that for a time period of more than 40 minutes, having a university education increases the desirability of walking and owning a private household vehicle decreases it. The results of this research can help urban planners and policy makers in adopting appropriate policies to encourage and increase women's walking.
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