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Factors Of Poor Public Transportation

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Poor public transportation

Public transportation systems are the key element in urban and rural sector. Public transport consist of bus, taxi and train. Public transport serves the daily commuting needs of all people. Hence, in growing country, public transportation quality should be achieve the meaning of sustainable. Public transportation have its own contribution to the people, economy as well as for the environment. Literally, public transport should make all task in urban and rural easy and also decrease the number of traffic volume. Furthermore, it also bring the mobility in traffic system as well the economy. According to Kamaruddin et al., (2012) the move toward a sustainable transport system, in general, will closely related to the relationship between satisfaction and environment. A public transportation service should provide a good accessibility that leads to reliable, safe, intelligent, convenience and effective of transportation system (Amiril, Nawawi, Takim, & Latif, 2014).

However, the pattern of traffic system was generally increase since 5 years ago. People tends to use private transport rather than public transport. This situation happens because of the poor and unreliable service of public transport. The catchment of service was narrow and focusing only in urban area. People in rural area need to have their own transport to go from one place to another. Besides that, there were several factors influence the poor service of public transportation.

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