Why Do People Use Their Cars: A Case Study In Malaysia

Kamba, Abdalla Nurdeen; Rahmat, Riza Atiq O.K.; Ismail, Amiruddin

doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.117.122

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“…Private vehicle usage has increased over the last few decades in most of the urban areas especially in developed and developing countries attributed possibly to the poor management of PT services (Kamba et al, 2007;Kasipillai and Chan, 2008;Nurdden et al, 2007;Steg, 2003). PT is often perceived to be poor alternative compared to private vehicles (Steg, 2003).…”

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“…In the context of PBT services, research done by Andaleeb et al (2007) argued that the main factors to increase the satisfaction level of the regular bus users are the comfort level of the bus, the staff behavior, the number of bus transit point to reach the destination, supervision and waiting facilities provided. In Malaysia, a few researches have been conducted to examine different characteristics of Malaysian citizens who are favoring private transportation as well as factors influencing the individual selection of the mode of transportation (Kamba et al, 2007;Kasipillai and Chan, 2008;Mohamad and Kiggundu, 2007;Sheikh et al, 2006). Some studies showed that an efficient PT system with reduced bus travel time and cost is essential to encourage especially motorists or car drivers to utilize the PBT services (Nurdden et al, 2007;Sheikh et al, 2006).…”

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“…This is in contrast with public transport (PT) travel in Malaysia which is not reliable and often known as "bad" which also necessitates the sharing of the service with other strangers. Evidence shows that the high dependency on private vehicles in Malaysia is attributed to the economic growth, rising household income, establishment of the Malaysia national car project, fuel subsidies, deficiencies and the poor management of PT system (Kamba et al, 2007;Kasipillai and Chan, 2008;Mohamad and Kiggundu, 2007). Excessive private vehicles on major roads in Malaysia have created problems in traffic *Corresponding author.…”

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Robust models for the utilization of public bus transport services in Malaysia

Jayaraman¹,

Suan²,

Lin³

2011

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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Unless public transportation is efficient, affordable, clean, comfortable and convenient, people would otherwise resort to drive to their destinations. The increased in the number of private vehicles on the road in Malaysia testifies to the preference of driving to work or places of leisure for many reasons. It could also quite easily point to the ailing public transport industry save for a few developed countries that are endowed with an enviable public transport system. The overall improvement of public transportation augmented with selective restrictions of private vehicle use would invariably improve the utilization of public transportation. This article proposes a conceptual model to assess perceived Bus transport utilization. It uses a categorical survey method to identify the preferences of Bus commuters to assess utilization. This conceptual model also allows managers to identify cost effective strategies within the model that are readily implementable within a relatively short duration to improve the utilization. In addition, the model is flexible enough to allow customization by management to improve the utilization within its own set of constraints.

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Robust models for the utilization of public bus transport services in Malaysia

Jayaraman¹,

Suan²,

Lin³

2011

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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“…Studies carried out by Mohamad and Kiggundu [26], Abdul Kadir et al [27], Kamba et al [28] in Klang Valley, Rastogi [5] and Tiwari [9] investigated factors affecting mode choice preferences. Geographical and cultural variations in factors affecting travel mode choice are studied by Desai and Joshi [13].…”

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Database Development Approach and Survey Design for Travel Mode Shift Behavior Study with Respect to Mass Transit in a Metropolitan Context

Desai

Joshi

2016

Transp. in Dev. Econ.

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Travel behavior study is one of the most complex studies as it governs multi-parameter evaluation at a time and involves collection of huge data pertaining to human behavior in variety of situations (Rastogi and Krishna Rao in Segmentation analysis of commuters accessing transit: Mumbai study. J Transp Eng 135(8):506-515, 2009). Success of travel behavior studies is mostly dependent on healthy data collection. Aim of this paper, is to evaluate and suggest the most suitable database development approach and research strategies which can be adopted for travel behavior studies especially in context of Indian metro cities. It also presents entire survey design procedure adopted for travel mode shift study along with researchers' experience in execution of survey and difficulties faced by field teams. Three level filtration processes are adopted for selection of variables for development of mode shift models. Initially the least important variables were omitted based on variable ranking results. Top ranked seven variables are identified for final survey design, out of which travel time (including transit access time, waiting time and in-vehicle time), travel cost and number of transfers are directly measurable variables while comfort, convenience, safety and security are latent variables. The latent variables are measured using psychometric scale constructed from various latent variable indicators and then converted into latent classes using principal component analysis. Research instrument developed and adopted for the present study was tested through pilot survey and corrected as per data compatibility requirement. Finally 1017 valid responses out of 1500 distributed questionnaires are analyzed to evaluate the effects of enhanced level of hypothetical public transport services on travel mode shift behavior through development of binary logistic regression models. Changes in the model performance with inclusion of latent classes are also evaluated using various statistical tools. This paper includes original work based on primary data from a field survey, findings of which are expected to provide a better understanding of entire database development process and effect of different variables on mode shift behavior in context of Indian metropolitan area.

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“…In addition, according to Ohmae (1995), countries with US$3,000 gross national product (GNP; considered income threshold) has a strong and steady demand for consumer goods, such as relatively cheap motorcars, while a GNP of US$5,000 would demand high quality and posh cars. Therefore, the increase in new vehicle registration that grows in tandem with economic growth (Ohmae, 1995) has caused problems, such as worsening traffic congestion, road accidents, air and noise pollution in Malaysia (Mohamad and Kiggundu, 2007;Kamba et al, 2007). Figure 1 shows vehicle ownership growing yearly except in 1998 (a consequence of the 1997 Asian financial crisis) and 2009 (due to 2008 global financial crisis).…”

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Improving Traffic Infrastructure in a Developing Country: An Investigation into the Usage of Public Bus Transport in Malaysia

Soh¹,

Wong²,

Chong³

et al. 2014

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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Economic growth with rising household income has put more vehicles on the roads worsening traffic congestion, road accidents, and air and noise pollution. This situation is further aggravated by the potential working population who choose to drive to work instead of taking public transportation. Public bus transport (PBT) plays an important role in alleviating these problems. PBT is underutilized in Malaysia, and there is an opportunity to increase ridership without substantial investment. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the factors that influence the use of PBT in Malaysia. The data were collected using structured questionnaires from 400 respondents. The results of the analysis show that the twin factors consisting of perceived satisfaction of and perceived importance by users towards safety and comfort of facilities and services offered by PBT are significantly related to intention to use those services. The satisfaction of availability of season tickets, the importance of reliability of bus schedule and time table, and the importance of ticket pricing are also significant. By providing insights for both public bus operators and the government, this paper contributes to mitigate the underutilization of PBT in Malaysia and the consequences of putting more vehicles on the roads. From the theory perspective, this paper also contributes by extending the theory of reasoned-action to transportation studies.

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Why Do People Use Their Cars: A Case Study In Malaysia

Cited by 33 publications

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Robust models for the utilization of public bus transport services in Malaysia

Robust models for the utilization of public bus transport services in Malaysia

Database Development Approach and Survey Design for Travel Mode Shift Behavior Study with Respect to Mass Transit in a Metropolitan Context

Improving Traffic Infrastructure in a Developing Country: An Investigation into the Usage of Public Bus Transport in Malaysia

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