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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

This province is a lone district in itself and of their daily tasks. These tasks include jobs,
has a considerable adequate population within its education, healthcare, transport of good, etc. For the
boundaries. The total population per village of transport of goods, one of the main sources of
Marinduque from 1990 – 2010 is also seen on figure income of the population in Marinduque are their
2. The figure shows the population density per local products. Each barangay in each municipality
municipality. These values are important in noting differs on the products that they sell. Some of the
which parts of the province need better access to common products include, fish, butterflies, coconuts
services. The issue lies within the transport service and coconut-based products, local food specialties,
being provided to the people in Marinduque. etc.

2. Literature Review
2.1 Public Transportation
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A study that focuses on evaluating the
public transportation system of Tehran with the
means of passenger satisfaction surveys.
Consequently, they have utilized methods such as an
integrated Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM)
approach which is based from Delphi Method,
Group Analytic Hierarchy Process (GAHP) and
preference ranking organization method for
enrichment of evaluations (PROMETHEE). These
Fig.1. Six (6) Municipalities in Marinduque [1] models allowed for more reliable and realistic data
which also provide directions on how to improve the
public transportation service quality. In the study,
they have concluded that among the most important
public transportation systems in Tehran are metro,
taxi, BRT, bus and van which shows that the local
government must focus on improving the said
transport services accordingly.

2.2 Factors in Transport Modes
One of the main factors that a population
consider in choosing a specific mode of transport is

Fig. 2. Total Population per village from 1990 – the travel time. This factor can be the primary reason
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2010 why an individual would choose a transport mode. It
could sometimes be considered by the commuter
The main public transport modes that the more than the actual cost of travel. Looking into this
residents in Marinduque have access to include factor greatly helps in understanding the travel
tricycles, jeepney and “habal-habal”. A habal-habal behavior and travel choices of a certain population.
[3]
is a public mode of transport that is very common in In fact, a study states that one of the core elements
the Philippines, especially in rural areas. They are that affects the perspective of the passengers toward
motorcycles that are used for public use. Habal- the quality of the public transport service being
habal drivers provide a “motorcycle for hire” service provided is the travel time. In their study, they
which basically means that they are paid to transfer considered all the supplementary components in the
passengers from one location to another using their travel time which include the waiting time, walking
motorcycles. These motorcycles can also have a time, etc.
fixed route wherein they can carry more than one The main objective of their study is to
passenger to a fixed destination. Moreover, these investigate and provide a presentation on the actual
transport modes are very essential to the daily lives and perceived travel time on different stages of the
of the people in the province. There are currently study which include the first-mile stage, in-vehicle
227, 828 people in the province. The population in stage, transfer stage and the last-mile stage. The
this province need better modes of transport because study concluded through a series of paired T-tests
that the passengers perceive travel time to be longer

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