Travel cost budget distributions among household life stages considering bus users in Banda Aceh

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the average travel cost budget (TCB) distributions among household life stages (HLS) groups considering the bus users of Trans-Koetaradja in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province. This research was conducted within three corridors of Trans Koetaradja. The onboard survey is performed to collect bus users related information such as their monthly travel budget, socio-economic attributes, and travel/mobility characteristics. In this study, we only consider to analysis the distributions and characteristics obtained data sets by deeply investigating socio-demographics and travel attributes of bus users. The analysis result reveals that the group 3 (families with pre-school children) spent the highest average of TCB (0.442 million IDR/month) and group 1 (single person) spent the lowest TCB (0.280 million IDR/month). While group 2 (childless couple) has portion the lowest average of TCB about 10.2% from their monthly income, and group 3 (families with pre-school children) has shared the highest TCB accounting up to 14.4% from their monthly income compared to the remaining groups. This result depicts that an average TCB across HLS groups is considerably high, especially early household life stages development. It is may partially due to a limitation on their monthly income and lack of affordable transport mode for them.