Determining variations in rail public transport access using GIS in Klang Valley City, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract

About 75% of urban areas in Malaysia have an excellent public transportation system. Malaysian Intelligent Transport System (MITS) Blueprint 2017 – 2022 is developed and mentioned public transport as the infrastructure for traffic management and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will change the global landscape of public transportation. The primary purpose of this paper is to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for identifying spatial accessibility to transport in Klang Valley, Selangor supported the movement of the walk-distance analysis techniques. A geospatial database was created that has the coordinate of urban public transport (railway mode), home residence distribution, and road networks. Accessibility index tool and geoprocessing by overlay analyses were selected because of the analysis tools for this paper. The paper results indicate that urban public transport in the Klang Valley districts of Selangor has fewer registered railway line stations. Several areas of Klang Valley region have low accessibility based on z-score either dispersion or clustering pattern to public transport because they fall outside the space-distance service area for every terminal. Local transport planners in Klang Valley may use the created application to allocate public transport in low access areas.