Transport mode choice in South East Asia: Investigating the relationship between transport users’ perception and travel behaviour in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Leanne Yong Le Loo, Jonathan Corcoran, Derlie Mateo-Babiano and Renee Zahnow

Journal of Transport Geography, 2015, vol. 46, issue C, 99-111

Abstract: The worldwide increase in private car dependency poses a set of significant environmental, economic and social sustainability challenges that continue to undermine the urban quality of life. Rapid motorisation, particularly in South East Asia (SEA), has emerged as a global concern given the region’s cumulative population, rate of industrialisation, and large-scale urbanisation. Thus, there is a compelling need to enhance our understanding of the underlying dynamics of how people perceive and use transportation such that transport planning is better placed to address the current, unsustainable travel patterns in SEA. Despite this need, there has been relatively limited SEA-based research that has endeavoured to examine travel perceptions and transport mode choice from a non-instrumental perspective. This research redresses this deficit by investigating the relationship between transport users’ perceptions and travel behaviours within SEA, with a particular focus on psychosocial drivers of transport mode choice interfaced with more traditional instrumental measures.

Keywords: Car use; Public transport use; Transport mode choice; Psychological motives; South East Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.06.011

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