A.M.A. Banger (Abdullh)

Abdullh Banger holds a bachelor’s from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia in 2007 and a master's degree from Ball State University, the USA in 2013 in urban and regional planning. His master project is "A spatial development plan to improve religious tourism in Saudi Arabia".

Before joining ITC at the University of Twente as a Ph.D. candidate, he worked as a real estate developer at Emaar (multinational real estate development company) from 2006 to 2010, and as a teaching assistant at King Abdulaziz University from 2011 to 2019. 

Abdullh is interested in active mobility and how planning supporting system, PSS, can be applied to geospatial data.

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The motorized transportation system has become the dominant transport mode, especially in some cities in the Global South, where light-duty vehicles' share exceeds 90%. Automobile-dependent developments are related to adverse effects on the environment, society, and the economy (figure 1). Thus, the provision of pedestrian-oriented developments (POD) has become a central challenge for policymakers and governments in the 21st century.

This research attempts to advance walkability research by identifying the interrelationship between the built environment and walking travel behaviors in the context of GCC cities. Such a comprehensive approach based on the research paradigms of urban planning and psychology is essential to understanding the complexity of the relationships among objective walkability factors related to the built environment and subjective factors related to walking travel behavior. 

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University of Twente

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7522 NH Enschede
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