Abstract
Public transports are convenient nowadays due to high technology and proper planning and the usage of public transport has been increasing steadily over the years. Most of the public transport stations are now integrated with park-and-ride facilities which allow users of the public transport to park their vehicle. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the utilization of park-and-ride facilities. Several factors have been identified to determine the underutilized of facilities such as safety concern and travel cost issues. Questionnaires have been distributed to collect data in order to analyze the pattern of consumer’s behavior on the usage of park-and-ride facilities. This study reveals that majority of the population prefers using private cars instead of transiting between park-and-ride facilities and public transportations mainly due to purpose of their trip and safety issues. An improvement or refurbishment on park-and-ride facilities would be required to increase the utilization of the facilities and to give users assurance that utilizing the facilities was the right choice to be made.
Highlights
Kuala Lumpur and traffic congestion in the same sentence is never a strange thing
The enormous amount of private vehicles additions every year indicates the economic power of the country but it has exceeded that extent in which our road network infrastructure could support [2]
The personal earnings are often used to finance the acquirement of private vehicles, it is usually cars or motorcycles, these vehicles are perceived as a necessity more than luxury [3]
Summary
Kuala Lumpur and traffic congestion in the same sentence is never a strange thing. It is a major issue in Klang Valley. The people perceive public transit as an unreliable mode of transport because they are often not punctual and prone to delaying due to technical issues [4] They would prefer to travel by own vehicles because it is more convenient, flexible and reliable in trip planning. Knowing that the current circumstances that people preferences of their own vehicles, the establishment of park-and-ride facility that complement train stations can have an impact on traveler’s habit of driving all the way to their destinations. It cannot depend solely on the development of railway network alone such as increasing the stations and increasing connecting bus rides to curb the traffic congestion issues [6].
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