Publication details
Feasible Ways of Strengthening the Public Transportation Demand in Klang Valley (Malaysia)
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The inclusive economic growth and increasing wealth in Malaysia have some negative effects on transportation, predominantly in form of rising demand for private vehicles and refusing attitude to use public transportation (PT). The government and local authorities support this occurrence by subsidizing the fuel costs, determining low highway tolls and lack in investments which would ensure an effective functioning of PT. This politics resulted in enormous traffic congestions and air pollution which can be evident especially in Kuala Lumpur and its suburban areas. Thus, the objective of this article is to investigate the characteristics of the transportation users in the mentioned area and specify factors that would convince the car/motorcycle users to switch to public transportation. With the help of the consumer survey the article also studied the willingness of private vehicle users to accept the potential travel time reductions and opt for PT. With respect to these preliminary survey findings we proposed several policies which can strengthen the number of public transportation users and reduce car/motorcycle utilization. |