Research on factors affecting travel behavior on choice of transportation means for working activity :: Case study Yogyakarta city, Indonesia

DEWI, Aryu Utami, Prof. Dr-Ing. Ir. Ahmad Munawar, M.Sc

2010 | Tesis | S2 Magister Sistem dan Teknik Transportasi

Transportation is one of the vital sectors supporting human activity, because without any movement it is impossible for people to fulfill their needs. People need is closely related with the social and economic interaction. Working is one of the people activities to fulfill their need, and to achieve this need through movement, mode of transport is needed. Nowadays, the growth of population and the private car ownership is increasing rapidly while the quality of public transport is decreasing. The choice of mode for workers is a crucial thing. More and less, the choice of transportation mode is affected by many factors such as: gender, income, travel time, convenience, safety and etc. All of these factors related with the socio economic and service attributes. This study is trying to identify factors affecting transportation mode choice for working activity from internal factor (traveler aspects) and from the external side (service attributes). The quantitative research method is conducted to determine the relationship between independent variable and dependent or outcome variable. Surveys were carried out by collecting sample from the people who live and work in Yogyakarta. Primary and secondary data collections were employed. The primary data, gathered from the survey method using questionnaire and secondary data gathered from documentation and empirical data. According to factor analysis, it is shown that trip characteristic, safety and security become the factors that show up many times compare with others, while by using logistic regression, the number of household having negative relation with the probability to use public transport, while driving license ownership, travel distance and travel cost have positive relation with the probability to use public transport.

Kata Kunci : Mode choice, Socio-economic characteristics, Service attributes, Factor analysis, Logistic regression