CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND STUDY
Kees Maat (2009) stated that in the recent decades, we have witnessed the ongoing academic policy debate on how and to what extent individual travel pattern are influenced by the built environment. The background of this debate is the turbulent growth of car travel in urbanised countries. Urban economy and development is well dependent and influenced by transportation (Hill, 1965). Owing to the interdependency of various other factors like industries, livelihood of growing population and the environment that affects the socio-economic status, cautiously planned and incorporated transport facilities are very much necessary for the urban world. Malaysian economy is growing rapidly at the present time. …show more content…
After the Malaysian independence in the 1957, the pace of urbanization was rather tedious. This took a swifter pace after the 1970. The rapid urbanization and motorization seen in Malaysia at present is mainly due to the expanding economy since 1987 (Morikawa et al., 2001). There was an increase of 50.7% in the proportion of urban population in Malaysia from 1991-2000 (Ho, 2008). As per the global competitiveness index, Malaysia is under the stage 2 and ranks 21st in the global competitiveness index and is in the middle stage of development. The road infrastructure ranks 17th among the world countries (Porter and Schwab, 2008). From 1986-2005, the 20% of development expenditure was distributed in transport sector by …show more content…
The data is collected through primary and secondary data. First method is conducting a case study to the neighbourhood which is considered the primary data for the study. This includes photographing and observing the travel pattern. The second method used is through self-administered survey, first is the Reveal preferences (RP) survey to determine the current choice mode in travel. Later a Stated preferences (SP) survey will be conducted to capture the effects on improvements done to alternative transportation due to transportation policy shifts within the country. The questionnaires are collected to gain insights on people’s discrete choice in travel and to understand activity based travel behaviour and the attributes that influence travel in this case household-workplace. Respondents were selected from the neighbourhood
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND STUDY
Kees Maat (2009) stated that in the recent decades, we have witnessed the ongoing academic policy debate on how and to what extent individual travel pattern are influenced by the built environment. The background of this debate is the turbulent growth of car travel in urbanised countries. Urban economy and development is well dependent and influenced by transportation (Hill, 1965). Owing to the interdependency of various other factors like industries, livelihood of growing population and the environment that affects the socio-economic status, cautiously planned and incorporated transport facilities are very much necessary for the urban world. Malaysian economy is growing rapidly at the present time. …show more content…
After the Malaysian independence in the 1957, the pace of urbanization was rather tedious. This took a swifter pace after the 1970. The rapid urbanization and motorization seen in Malaysia at present is mainly due to the expanding economy since 1987 (Morikawa et al., 2001). There was an increase of 50.7% in the proportion of urban population in Malaysia from 1991-2000 (Ho, 2008). As per the global competitiveness index, Malaysia is under the stage 2 and ranks 21st in the global competitiveness index and is in the middle stage of development. The road infrastructure ranks 17th among the world countries (Porter and Schwab, 2008). From 1986-2005, the 20% of development expenditure was distributed in transport sector by …show more content…
The data is collected through primary and secondary data. First method is conducting a case study to the neighbourhood which is considered the primary data for the study. This includes photographing and observing the travel pattern. The second method used is through self-administered survey, first is the Reveal preferences (RP) survey to determine the current choice mode in travel. Later a Stated preferences (SP) survey will be conducted to capture the effects on improvements done to alternative transportation due to transportation policy shifts within the country. The questionnaires are collected to gain insights on people’s discrete choice in travel and to understand activity based travel behaviour and the attributes that influence travel in this case household-workplace. Respondents were selected from the neighbourhood