Investigating public perceptions and its implication toward Trans Koetaradja policy considering latent motivation

Abstract

Urban bus system so-called Trans Koetaradja (TK) has been considered and piloted as a way to mitigate motorcycles and cars dependency in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh Province. It is assumed that the effectiveness of the such proposed policy would be useful if the public acceptance of this policy has a positive response. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the attitudes of the public in responding to such proposed policy. The data were collected within line 3 and line 4 of TK that is City Center - Mata Ie and City Center - Ajun - Lhoknga. The data collection method used was Stated Preference (SP) with a total of 220 samples collected using a stratified random sampling method. The SP questionnaire contains information about socio-economic, travel behavior, and respondents’ perceptions representing their attitudes towards TK policy. People are dependent on their vehicles due to public transport challenging to use. The psychological indicators such as like driving a car & motorcycle and TK has limited accessibility have significant manifested to the latent variable of Inhibition of freedom of movement/activity. These sign representing the attitudes of the people in Banda Aceh would be dependence to their own vehicles and directly affected to the rejection to use proposed bus system of the proposed policy. Furthermore, male commuters who have low education level and income households more likely to autos dependent and more feeling inhibition of freedom of movement/activity if they use public transport.

Attitudinal dataset for mediating the effects of public acceptance on bus reform scheme in a developing country context

“…The trial run corridors of TK are within the city of Banda Aceh (see Fig. 1a) as the city heavily relies on private modes such as cars and motorcycles [9], [10]. The target area of this study is corridor 1 (red), 3 (dark blue), and 4 (yellow) as shown in Fig.…”

Understanding Household's Travel Costs Budget Frontier in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

“…Therefore, policies reflecting the needs of certain income groups need to be formulated to ensure impartiality during the implementation of the full-charge in the bus system and make it more affordable. It is also better to understand the travel behavior of residents to achieve successful and more efficient transport planning, particularly dealing with behavioral adopting the commuting trip in emerging cities [18][19][20][21].…”

The relative importance of bus system's Perceived Service Quality (PSQ) attributes among public and private mode users in Indonesia

“…Recent studies have been attempted on quantifying of perceived quality of service by passengers to distinguish the most probable influencing factors of service quality attributes. According to [7,8,10], public acceptance for the proposal of Trans Koetaradja as new system of urban public transport in Banda Aceh city was found to be significantly high but the people are unable to make use of it effectively due to its limited routes. This means that there is a need for public transport administrators to classify the elements of service quality considered to be pertinent to public/users and use detailed strategic and Sugiarto, et al -The relative importance of bus system"s perceived service quality (PSQ) attributes among public and private mode users in Indonesia operational policies to attract new users.…”