Contents
Undertaking i
Certificate iii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
Table of contents x
List of figures xv
List of tables xi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Need of the Research 2
1.3 Aim 2
1.4 Objectives 2
1.5 Methodology 3
1.6 Scope and Limitation 4
2 Literature Review 5
2.1 Women Travel Pattern and Practices 5
2.2 Sexual Violence against Women 6
2.3 Factors influencing Women Travel Pattern 7
2.4 Factors Influencing Women Safety Perspective 10
2.5 Locational Factors Influencing Women’s Safety Perception 12
2.6 Analysis from the Literature Study 13
2.7 Existing Tools and Methods to Measure Safety Perception of Women ...14 Principal Component Analysis 16
2.8 Evaluation Method used in the Research 17
3 Case city – Ahmedabad 19
3.1 Introduction to the Case City - Ahmedabad 20
3.2 Transport Scenario of Ahmedabad 20
3.3 Existing initiatives for women safety 22
3.3.1 Conclusion 23
4 Data Collection 25
4.1 Survey Location Selection 25
4.1.1 Criteria for the Preparation of Survey Form 29
4.1.2 Description of the Survey Questionnaire 30
5 Perception Analysis of women 31
5.1 Behavioural response 41
5.1.1 Analysis 52
5.2 Locational Parameters that lead to lack of Perception of Safety 54
5.2.1 Observations and Discussion with Women during Survey 56
5.3 Women Perception of Safety 58
5.3.2 Importance Satisfaction Analysis based on location (East – West) 63
5.3.3 Importance Satisfaction Analysis on Women’s Perspective 64
5.3.4 Importance Satisfaction Analysis based on AMTS and BRTS User Perspective 66
5.3.5 Analysis based on Importance Satisfaction Analysis 68
5.3.6 Factors Influencing Women Safety 69
5.3.7 Analysis 75
5.4 Discussion based on the Literature and the Results from the Analysis 76
6 Gap Analysis 79
6.1 AMTS 79
6.2 BRTS 81
6.3 Police Department 82

6.4 Comparison of Existing Measures and Expectations of Woman 83
7 Discussion and Recommendation 89
References xvii
Appendix 1: Survey questionnaire xxi
Appendix 2: Questionnaire for the respective authority xxx