Abstract
The main objective of present study is to evaluate private vehicle commuters’ knowledge and concern about health and environmental impact of transportation related air pollution in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and interviewing 450 car commuters in five main areas of Klang Valley. The Results indicated that majority of respondents (58%) have knowledge about deteriorating effect of transport on society’s health and welfare. While, only 36% of them were concern about the transport related environmental problems. This study suggest that government intervention through increasing toll, parking fee and introducing congestion fee together with providing more efficient public transport can reduce more than half of travels by car.
Highlights
Malaysia is a developing country with rapid rate of urbanization and industrialization
Poor public transport system is the main reason of increasing rate of private own vehicles
For the sake of convenience rather than paper based questionnaires we applied computer aided personal interview (CAPI).The sampling frame was included all Klang Valley citizens who use their own car to commute to work every day
Summary
Malaysia is a developing country with rapid rate of urbanization and industrialization. The private vehicle ownership is escalating so as congestion and air pollution. The current trend of private vehicle ownership is showing an increasing trend with 25% increment in 2014 compare to 2013. Poor public transport system is the main reason of increasing rate of private own vehicles. Due to DOE of Malaysia[4], the number of unhealthy days and amount of pollutants emission shows an increasing rate in 2014 compared to previous years. Motor vehicles contributed 68.5 per cent of the pollutants emission to the atmosphere in 2012 (Figure 1). Considering 95% of CO emission to the atmosphere in Malaysia is from motor vehicles[4], taking into account the externalities is an important step to increase societal welfare
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