Características do ambiente construído associadas à seguridade percebida pelas mulheres ao caminharem

Lara Reis Rodrigues; Rochele Amorim Ribeiro

doi:10.5585/2025.25849

Authors

Lara Reis Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos – EESC-USP / São Carlos, SP – Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8945-9015
Rochele Amorim Ribeiro Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar / São Carlos, SP – Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5647-8789

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/2025.25849

Keywords:

women's issues in transportation, perceived security, walkability, urban planning

Abstract

Objective: To select characteristics of the built environment that affect the perceived security of pedestrians, considering mainly females .

Methodology: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted from March to August 2022, analyzing national and international publications of a scientific and technical nature, available in virtual databases, in order to establish a synthesis and comparison of results from works related to the topic.

Originality/Relevance: Studies have shown that characteristics of the built environment are associated with perceived security when walking and that people's gender also influences this perception in an urban space. Thus, the relevance of this work lies in the search for visibility and improvement of a recurring and underreported issue in the daily lives of female pedestrians.

Results: Of the total collected samples, 68,43% were scientific articles, 21,05% were books, 5,26% were theses and 5,26% were technical works, coming from North America, South America, Europe and Oceania and having been published from 1971 to 2022. From these samples, eight measurements were selected, which were grouped into four aspects of urban space, summarizing the main characteristics of the built environment associated with the perception of security: (i) flow of people, (ii) street maintenance, (iii) attractiveness of the urban space and (iv) surveillance.

Social contributions / for management: The article offers, as a contribution to management, subsiding urban planning decision-making, aiming for cities that are noticeably more secure for pedestrians, especially women, highlighting which aspects and measures can be considered to consolidate this intention.

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Author Biographies

Lara Reis Rodrigues, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos – EESC-USP / São Carlos, SP – Brazil

PhD student in the Graduate Program in Transportation Engineering (PPG-ET) at the São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo (EESC-USP) (2024- ), specializing in "Planning and Operation of Transportation Systems." She holds a Master's degree in Urban Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) (2022-2024) and a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Franca (UNIFRAN) (2017-2021). Her research focuses on walkability, urban and regional planning, transportation planning, gender, perceived safety, and road safety. She has experience in Architecture and Urbanism.

Rochele Amorim Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar / São Carlos, SP – Brazil

Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). She has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism (2004), a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2006), and a PhD in Transportation Engineering from USP - São Carlos (2011). During her undergraduate studies, she was a PROREXT-UFRGS scholarship holder involved in university extension activities. She also interned with CIEE at the Urban Planning Secretariat of the City of Canoas and in architecture and urbanism offices. During her Master's program, she was a CAPES scholarship holder. She has published scientific papers at national and international conferences in the fields of Urban Planning and Transportation. In 2006, she participated in a research internship at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) focusing on Sustainable Urban Development, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Rui António Rodrigues Ramos. Her areas of expertise include Urban and Regional Planning, particularly in Graphic Expression, Geoprocessing, Urban Mobility, and Computational Modeling.

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