40 km/hr in Taipei:Passengers’ Position and Interaction on the Bus
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Huang, Chiung-Hui
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The development of bus service in Taipei has been eighty-five years, becoming a kind of representation of Taiwanese popular culture. The relationship between society and daily life in Taipei is very important, but there are few papers dealing with the bus culture. Since the bus lines and amount of buses have increased during the past forty years, bus culture has become more popular. As compared with other areas in Taiwan, the network of bus lines is very dense, and runs very frequently. Passengers often do not recognize other passengers because of an attitude of urban apathy. Therefore, passengers tend to avoid interaction which reflects a special characteristic of the bus culture in Taipei.
The majority of bus passengers in Taipei are females of all age groups. Males account for less and they tend to be elders and children. Bus passengers use the bus as a way to recognize and manage the image of Taipei in order to have infinite fun and a sense of accomplishment. Correspondingly, bus as a public space is much more closed than common open public space. The choice of position on the bus refer to covertness, territoriality, uncertain pressure, space without interruption, habitual space, dangerous space and the sense of security. The imagination of the bus space of passengers is colorful and interesting.
In terms of passengers’ interaction on the bus, there are five necessary conditions for the passengers to recognize familiar strangers: 1) ride buses at fixed times, 2) ride buses on fixed lines, 3) continuously ride buses, 4) passengers who board buses at the same stop, 5) infrequent runs of the bus line. In the aspect of the difference of interaction with regard to passengers’ sex, everybody likes to sit by the side of females when choosing a place. Females care more about who sits close to her than males, and males tend to care about the feeling of the space size.
Subjects
公車
乘客
封閉公共空間
位置選擇
人際互動
bus
passenger
closed public space
position
interaction
Type
thesis
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