scholarly journals URBAN COMMUTERS’ EXPECTATION LEVELS ON THE e-VTOL VERTICAL AIRPORT DESIGN IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Raymond Lim Ying Keat ◽  
Jestin Nordin ◽  
Mohd Najib Mohd Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
City Centre ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The City

The world’s urban dwellers are rapidly growing by 60.3% over six decades (1960-2019) (The World Bank Group, 2020), and two third of the world’s population is projected to reside in the urban setting by 2050. The same issue occurred in Malaysia, where the shifting from 73% rural to 73% urban population is real (Mohd Hussain, N. H.; Byrd, H.; & Ahmad, N. A., 2017), and this phenomena contributed to the increasing number of population in big cities such as Kuala Lumpur. Therefore, it is expected that the existing challenging traffic congestion will worsen if a better traffic dissemination planning strategy is not developed. Hence, the development of an e-VTOL (electrical vertical take-off landing) vehicle is a possible strategy to ease the urban traffic congestion problem. Serious collaboration among the departments such as planning, engineering, architecture, aviation developers, policy makers, and the sponsors, is important to establish sustainable future urban mobility and connectivity. This study aims to obtain information on the needs and expectations of urban commuters on the development of a vertiport in the city of Kuala Lumpur. A series of surveys involving 157 commuters using public transportation within the city centre, and a case study analysis, were conducted to gain an understanding of the viability of building a vertiport in Kuala Lumpur. Initially, findings show that nearly 50% of the respondents totally agree with the proposed development idea, while approximately 13% are really against this future urban air mobility strategy.

scholarly journals COMMUTERS’ PERCEPTIONS ON RAIL BASED PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES: A CASE STUDY OF KTM KOMUTER IN KUALA LUMPUR CITY, MALAYSIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahriah Bachok ◽  
Mariana Mohamed Osman ◽  
Ummi Aqilah Khalid ◽  
Mansor Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Probabilistic Sampling ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Transport Services

In facing the challenges of urban traffic congestion, when people are becoming more dependent on private vehicles, public transportation services should be functioning effectively as attractive alternative modes. This research evaluates how rail public transport users perceive day to day quality of the provided services. The study investigates commuters‟ satisfaction levels of various trip making aspects on board KTM Komuter trains, a commuter services operated by the company Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), a heavy rail operator in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A systematic probabilistic sampling questionnaire survey was conducted among the users during the month of December 2011 until March 2012. A sample of 1000 questionnaire forms returned by respondents have been gathered for purposes of ascertaining the overall satisfaction level and analysis on selected aspects of the performance indicators. The results have shown that the majority of the respondents perceived KTM Komuter services to be below the levels that the users had expected, especially the non-adherence to published schedule and travel times, frequency or headways, capacity, the physical conditions of the rail coaches and the information on delays. Most of them expected better services to increase their satisfaction levels. Hence, it is concluded that for the rail public transportation to be sustainable and continuously relevant, the operator has to increase KTM Komuter‟s effectiveness and efficiency or the services have to in the least remain attractive to the existing users.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTE. CASE STUDY: HOP-ON HOP-OFF, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Izzati Khairimah Ismail ◽  
Oliver Ling Hoon Leh ◽  
Zulkifli Ahmad Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
Waiting Periods

Urban public transportation system is a means of providing mobility to locals, visitors as well as tourists. KL Hop-On Hop-Off buses, for instance, are designed specifically for local and foreign tourists to move within the Kuala Lumpur (KL) city centre areas for the purpose of tourism. However, there is only one route provided by the KL Hop-On Hop-Off, with more than 20 stops. The duration for a complete route tour without any stop is too long; that is around 2-2 ½ hours. Coupled with the problem of traffic congestion in KL, passengers face the problems of punctuality and long waiting periods. Thus, this study was carried out to evaluate the existing route of the KL Hop-On Hop-Off bus services. GIS application and questionnaire survey were used to evaluate the route. As a result, this study proposes three new routes as the alternatives to the existing single route Hop-On Hop-Off bus service. With the new routes, duration of a single full route tour can be reduced based on the interest of tourist. Tourists will be able to concentrate on just one part of KL city centre for their one-day tour based on their interest either heritage, shopping or nature.

scholarly journals ASSESSING A WALKABLE ENVIRONMENT IN JALAN TUANKU ABDUL RAHMAN, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Na'asah Nasrudin ◽  
Muna Sarimin ◽  
Norhayati Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Capital City ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
General Physical ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places

There is currently a wide discussion on promoting a walkable environment and improving walkability especially in city centre. Walking in the city is meant to solve numerous problems ranging from the city vibrancy, traffic congestion, environmental injustice, social isolation to the human health issues related to obesity crisis. This paper aims to examine the walkable environment of Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman as one of the busiest pedestrian urban places in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. It investigates the pedestrians’ perception on their walking experience based on the walkable environment elements i.e. comfort, safety and levels of enjoyment. A participant observation and questionnaire survey technique were employed whereby the former involved with the researchers general physical evaluation of the site and the latter engaged a random sample of 120 pedestrians of Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman for a paper-based on street questionnaire survey. The findings suggested that the majority of the respondents were satisfied with the existing conditions of comfort and safety and hence, regarded Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman as a walkable area. However, their level of enjoyment was generally minimal suggesting that there are rooms for further improvement in the pedestrian area tocreate a better and more conducive walkable environment.

scholarly journals COMMUTERS PERCEPTIONS ON RAIL BASED PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES: A CASE STUDY OF KTM KOMUTER IN KUALA LUMPUR CITY, MALAYSIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahriah Bachok ◽  
Mariana Mohamed Osman ◽  
Ummi Aqilah Khalid ◽  
Mansor Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Probabilistic Sampling ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Transport Services

In facing the challenges of urban traffic congestion, when people are becoming more dependent on private vehicles, public transportation services should be functioning effectively as attractive alternative modes. This research evaluates how rail public transport users perceive day to day quality of the provided services. The study investigates commuters‟ satisfaction levels of various trip making aspects on board KTM Komuter trains, a commuter services operated by the company Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), a heavy rail operator in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A systematic probabilistic sampling questionnaire survey was conducted among the users during the month of December 2011 until March 2012. A sample of 1000 questionnaire forms returned by respondents have been gathered for purposes of ascertaining the overall satisfaction level and analysis on selected aspects of the performance indicators. The results have shown that the majority of the respondents perceived KTM Komuter services to be below the levels that the users had expected, especially the non-adherence to published schedule and travel times, frequency or headways, capacity, the physical conditions of the rail coaches and the information on delays. Most of them expected better services to increase their satisfaction levels. Hence, it is concluded that for the rail public transportation to be sustainable and continuously relevant, the operator has to increase KTM Komuter‟s effectiveness and efficiency or the services have to in the least remain attractive to the existing users.

scholarly journals Using confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the factor determining the bus usage in Surabaya City, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 778 (1) ◽  
pp. 012007
Author(s):  
A F Larasati ◽  
K D M E Handayeni
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
City Centre ◽  
City Bus ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The City ◽  
Bus System

Abstract Surabaya City is second biggest city in Indonesia which has a vital public transportation called as Suroboyo Bus. The city bus system provides route to connect the northern and southern part of the city with the central business district in the city centre. Policy of developing city bus system in north-south corridor aims to encourage the shifting of automobile to bus use as the traffic congestion is mainly caused by the high dependent of private mobility. The operation of Suroboyo Bus has been a concern because of the attractiveness of the quality with low deck and double-deck bus types, Suroboyo Bus also equipped a priority area, as well as a unique payment system with plastic bottle waste. This study aims to investigate the factors which influence the preference of Suroboyo Bus based on the user’s perceptions. Thus, the city bus system can be evaluated to achieve sustainable city mobility. Using the method of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), the result shows that there are nine significant factors determining the use of Suroboyo Bus. The city bus usage is mostly influenced by the user characteristic and the service performance of the mode offered.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTE. CASE STUDY: HOP-ON HOP-OFF, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Izzati Khairimah Ismail ◽  
Oliver Ling Hoon Leh ◽  
Zulkifli Ahmad Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
Waiting Periods

Urban public transportation system is a means of providing mobility to locals, visitors as well as tourists. KL Hop-On Hop-Off buses, for instance, are designed specifically for local and foreign tourists to move within the Kuala Lumpur (KL) city centre areas for the purpose of tourism. However, there is only one route provided by the KL Hop-On Hop-Off, with more than 20 stops. The duration for a complete route tour without any stop is too long; that is around 2-2 ½ hours. Coupled with the problem of traffic congestion in KL, passengers face the problems of punctuality and long waiting periods. Thus, this study was carried out to evaluate the existing route of the KL Hop-On Hop-Off bus services. GIS application and questionnaire survey were used to evaluate the route. As a result, this study proposes three new routes as the alternatives to the existing single route Hop-On Hop-Off bus service. With the new routes, duration of a single full route tour can be reduced based on the interest of tourist. Tourists will be able to concentrate on just one part of KL city centre for their one-day tour based on their interest either heritage, shopping or nature.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTE. CASE STUDY: HOP-ON HOP-OFF, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izzati Khairimah Ismail ◽  
Oliver Ling Hoon Leh ◽  
Zulkifli Ahmad Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
Waiting Periods

Urban public transportation system is a means of providing mobility to locals, visitors as well as tourists. KL Hop-On Hop-Off buses, for instance, are designed specifically for local and foreign tourists to move within the Kuala Lumpur (KL) city centre areas for the purpose of tourism. However, there is only one route provided by the KL Hop-On Hop-Off, with more than 20 stops. The duration for a complete route tour without any stop is too long; that is around 2-2 ½ hours. Coupled with the problem of traffic congestion in KL, passengers face the problems of punctuality and long waiting periods. Thus, this study was carried out to evaluate the existing route of the KL Hop-On Hop-Off bus services. GIS application and questionnaire survey were used to evaluate the route. As a result, this study proposes three new routes as the alternatives to the existing single route Hop-On Hop-Off bus service. With the new routes, duration of a single full route tour can be reduced based on the interest of tourist. Tourists will be able to concentrate on just one part of KL city centre for their one-day tour based on their interest either heritage, shopping or nature.

scholarly journals Research on Decision Evaluation Model of HOV Lane Setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ding Lv ◽  
Qunqi Wu ◽  
Bo Chen ◽  
Yahong Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Path Selection ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Travel Efficiency ◽  
Hov Lanes ◽  
The City

In order to achieve the purpose of improving the travel efficiency of commuters in the periphery of the city, expanding the beneficiary groups of urban rail transit, and alleviating urban road traffic congestion, when planning and setting up HOV in the periphery of the city, it is necessary to analyze the feasibility of HOV lane setting from both the demand conditions and the setting conditions. This paper combines machine learning to construct a decision-making evaluation model for HOV lane setting and studies the optimal layout model and algorithm of HOV lanes in service rail transit commuter chain. The setting, planning, and layout of HOV lanes are a two-way interactive process of traveler's path selection and designer's road planning. Finally, after the model is constructed, the performance of the system model is verified. The results show that the system studied in this paper can be used for traffic data and lane planning analysis. Therefore, in the process of urban operation, the HOV model constructed in this paper is mainly used to alleviate urban traffic and improve urban operation efficiency.

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban Car Owners Commute Mode Choice Based on Evolutionary Game Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huawei Gong ◽  
Wenzhou Jin
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Mode Selection ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transportation Development ◽  
The City

With the aggravation of the traffic congestion in the city, car owners will have to give up commuting with private cars and take the public transportation instead. The paper uses the replication dynamic mechanism to simulate the learning and adjustment mechanism of the automobile owners commuting mode selection. The evolutionary stable strategy is used to describe the long-term evolution of competition game trend. Finally we simulate equilibrium and stability of an evolution of the game under a payoff imbalance situation. The research shows that a certain proportion of car owners will choose public transit under the pressure of public transport development and heavy traffic, and the proportion will be closely related to the initial conditions and urban transportation development policy.

scholarly journals The Comparison of Travellers’ Attitude towards Public Transport: A Study on the Modal Share in Kuala Lumpur

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 861-865
Author(s):  
Noor Aqilah Ahmad Tajedi ◽  
Shafein Mohd Shahriman ◽  
S.M. Sabri S.M. Ismail ◽  
Intan Rohani Endut
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Vehicle ◽  
Transportation Sector ◽  
Willingness To Use ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Malaysia governments are seeing that the future of transportation to be creating an environmentally clean and sustainable for the benefit of the people.A huge amount of investment has been made by the governments towards a public transportation sector by expecting that the infrastructure and sustainability of transportation could change the number of modal share gradually. However, the numbers of modal share has not increased compared to private vehicle usage of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Therefore, a study on the travellers (both public and private vehicle users) attitudes is important to help understand the similarity or differences that could explain the modal share. The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of travellers in the Kuala Lumpur city centre by analysing the similarities and differences of attitudes among Public Transport users (PT) and Private Transport users (PV). The attitude being studied is about travelling without any specification of modes, thus examining 1790 KL dwellers objectives and provide the basis for fair and just comparison with regard to PT and PV. The attitudes towards travelling were measured by a 5-point Likert scale using a structured questionnaire, and statistically analysed by applying factor analysis provided in SPSS. The study found that six attitudes define the attitudes of PT traveller towards travelling, and three attitudes were influencing PV travellers toward travelling. Based on this outcome, the key attitudes that influence travellers’ willingness to use public transport were discussed and identified. The results lead to understanding the attitudes of people towards travelling from the eye of public transport and private transport users. The understanding forms concrete basis for government to plan on strategies to shift private vehicle users and promote usage of public transport. For operators, the understanding also provides invaluable input for strategic planning of marketing effort/public policy.Keyword-TravellerAttitude,Age,Gender,Incomelevel,PublicVehicle,PrivateVehicle

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