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  • Master Thesis
    Factors Affecting the Travel Preferences and Behaviors Under the Pandemic Conditions: İzmir City Case
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Yüksel, Muzaffer Arda; Duvarcı, Yavuz; Duvarcı, Yavuz; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    People prefer or have to choose different travel modes for various reasons while travelling. The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to the change and restructuring of social life by threatening people's health. It has created important changes on travel preferences and behaviors. The importance of travel preference in transportation has increased during the pandemic period. This study aims to contribute to the literature by comparing the change in travel patterns before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Lately, the current reasons for preference have been largely affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic. This study reveals how the travel preferences and external factors of travel have changed. In the study, home-based work, and home-based social travels were examined. The case study of the study includes central districts of İzmir. Research data obtained by 385 person-based surveys. Since the basic methodological approach is the before/during study, the study is examined in two periods, before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Chi Square and McNemar-Bowker Test methods were used in the study. The study discusses the significance of the Covid-19 Pandemic effect on travel preferences and external factors on travel preferences. As a result of the study, Covid-19 Pandemic effect on travel preferences and travel external factors was found to be significant. Social travels mode preferences were the most affected by external factors. Private car ownership was the strongest external factor in travel preference before the pandemic, and education level was the strongest external factor during the pandemic period. With the pandemic effect, the total strength of age, student/employee factors decreased, and the total strength of gender and education level factors increased. There was no change in the strength of the private car factor.
  • Master Thesis
    Women's Urban Spatial Mobility: Female Drivers in Jeddah City
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Abusaif, Wafa Bassam Yousif; Şenol, Fatma; Şenol, Fatma; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This study examines the socio-spatial factors that impact female drivers in terms of spatial mobility and city experience, as well as the characteristics of their spatial mobility. Women’s spatial mobility tend to be family-oriented, shorter in distances, longer in time, multi-chained, and they tend to depend more on public transportation. Gender roles and safety are two main starting point in understanding the nature of women’s spatial mobility in the city. There are three factors that influence women’s spatial mobility: individual-related factors, social-related factors, and political related factors. Women who are older in age, married with at least one dependent child, have lower education, unemployed, and come from lower income household have less spatial mobility and overall city experience. Other political factors such as laws and regulations, and the lack of female participation in transportation and urban planning and academic studies play a critical role in hindering women’s spatial mobility. This aim of this research is to investigates two main aspects of women’s spatial mobility. The first aspect is to investigate the social and individual factors that impact her likability to drive her own car or to travel with other public transportation. The second aspect is the impact of gender role and the presence of at least one dependent child on the the characteristics of spatial mobility for women who drive/travel. This study is developed using a case study on female drivers and travelers from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. Jeddah was chosen as a new emergent case in the literature review. This study will include conducted surveys with 100 women who drive and women who travel, with or without at least one dependent child.