Relationship between accessibility and safety criterias with the uses of the street: A case study of urban commercial street in Kuala Lumpur city centre

• Published in: Advances in Environmental Biology
• Main Author: Rahman N.A.; Md Sakip S.R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2015
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063824055&partnerID=40&md5=6e7cc30983c9782aa0fdc548fedf3385

There has been a growing concern in Malaysia towards promoting streets that are friendly to all users. People are more ready to use the street if the streets are improved to meet their needs. Accessibility and safety are two of the main qualities that contribute to the friendly streets. This research explores the notion of friendly urban environment. The primary concern is to identify the relationship between accessibility and safety criterias with the uses of the street.This research was conducted in the context of an urban commercial street in Kuala Lumput city centre.The study was quantitative in nature and involved asking users of the street to answer face to face survey. In this research the 289 respondents was participated. The construct safety on the street (SOS) employed 11 items and the construct of accessibility and proximity (ANP) involved 10 items. EFA is used in the early stages to gather information about the interrelationships among variables.The Cronbach‟s Alpha (α) value was used to determine the level of reliability through the internal consistency for each factor. The result for validity of construct from EFA demonstrated the SOS achieved Alpha (α) value exceeding 0.70 and ANP = 0.84. The finding indicate that, there is a significant correlation between the criterias of safety on the street and accessibility and proximity. There is also significant correlation between SOS criterias with the group of marital status, level education, age, ethnicity and type of users are significant. Meanwhile for SOS, the result only shows singnificant correlation with age background. © 2015 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.