Bus Driver Behavior

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1.0 Background The increasing development makes human activity becomes more complex indirectly increase demand of all types of transport. Budhiartini & Isnaini (2007) in their research suggested that transportation was keeping pace with advance of human life and culture while Aldukali et. al. (2011) suggested that population growth, high income, and rapid urbanization have led in travel demand. In line with the purpose of transportation which is the movement of people or goods from one place to another for a specific purpose transportation was used by people going to work, to college, shopping centers and so on Budhiartini & Isnaini (2007). Effects of the daily demand is increasing the number of vehicles everyday on the road especially personal …show more content…

2006; Young et al. 2011; Lai et al. 2010; Schwebel et al. 2007), Australia (Rowden et al. 2011; Dorrian et al. 2011; Horberry et al. 2006) and Europe including country such as Sweden (Af Wåhlberg 2006b; Af Wåhlberg 2006a; Af Wåhlberg 2004; af Wåhlberg 2007), Netherland (Aarts & Van Schagen 2006; Brookhuis et al. 2009), however, limited study was conducted in Asia e.g. Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. From literature study, in Malaysia least research paper has been found that discussed on bus driver behavior classification especially in urban driving environment. Although most of researchers refers aggressive and riskier driving as driver who apply higher speed, sharp braking and acceleration and defensive driver as a driver who apply relax driving, however, there are no standard classification of driving behavior exist in any research paper or driving standard (Rohani, …show more content…

5.0 Scope To ensure that the goals and objectives are achieved, there is some scope focused in this study. First, the location of this study is at Kuala Lumpur and involves two main areas, Depoh Cheras Selatan and Putrajaya Central. Since the study only focus on bus there are two types of buses used in this study, MAN for the route of U43 (Putrajaya-Bandar Utama) and SCANIA for the route of U429 (Cyberjaya-Bandar Utama). The microscopic bus driving behavior data will be collected using Global Positioning System (GPS DG200) during bus operation. From GPS signal we can get the date, location, longitude and latitude also the time. This is to obtain the instantaneous of speed profile by the bus driver. Data from GPS (DG200) will be transfer into ‘Google Earth’ to choose the correct data. Since this study involved huge amount of data, special software will be applied to handle data processing and analysis. At the end of the study driving behavior will be clustering into three driving style (aggressive, normal and

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