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

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

would become more acceptable to people regardless
Private Car Rating vs. Highest of their social status.
Educational Attainment
Overall, there are more people who are still
5 4 satisfied with jeepney as a mode of transportation.
Average Rating 3 2 Comfort safety, connectivity and cleanliness can still be
However, improvements of jeepney in terms of

pursued by the local government unit to provide
more satisfaction to people who ride jeepneys. The
Travel Time
flexibility compared to the other modes discussed.
0 1 Cleanliness main problem with jeepneys is their lack in
Safety
Jeepneys usually have a fixed route which caused the
Connectivity ratings for connectivity to be low since some people
still need to use another mode of transport after
Highest Educational Attainment getting off the jeepney to get to their desired
destination.
Fig. 17. Private Car Rating vs. Highest Educational Furthermore, it was very evident that the
Attainment transport mode that was rated the worst is the “habal-
habal”. Because of this, “habal-habal” is not
recommended as a mode of transportation in a daily
As seen from fig. 17, the participants with
vocational, college and master’s degree gave high basis. Hence, the local government unit should either
improve
of
terms
in
“habal-habal”
the
scores for the attributes of a private car. Evidently, comfortability, cleanliness, safety, connectivity, and
the attribute comfort was highlighted to be the best travel time or improve other mode of transportation
rated attribute for the private car because of its so that people would not rely on riding “habal-habal”
exclusivity and the fact that you are ensured to have anymore. Lastly, the attribute that got average rating
a seat when getting on this mode. The people with is the cleanliness. This is probably because the local
vocational, college and master’s degree gave higher commuters focus more on how they are going to
marks for comfort probably because they want think reach their destinations, rather than the state of the
that it’s better than the comfort provided by the other vehicle their currently on. Thus, the local
modes. government should focus more on addressing the
other transport attributes and how to improve the
5. Conclusion/Discussion current service their people is getting.
After all the analysis of the transport modes This paper only focuses on the perceived
included, it was seen that some of the modes are not ratings of the transport modes in the province and not
satisfactory for the local commuters and residents. necessarily proposing policies or guidelines on how
Among the modes that got fair ratings is the private to improve the actual situation. For future studies
car mode. This could be because passengers feel a regarding this topic, they can focus on establishing
sense of safety in this type mode because there are sets of measures that will help on improving the state
less passengers in the car which could decrease the of the transport modes. They must also be able to
chance of common petty crimes (snatching, theft, provide concepts for the local government that
etc.) to occur. It is a common knowledge that these would set them to the right direction of the
crimes usually occur in public transportation modes. betterment of the modes. Focusing on the
Moreover, since tricycle is the major mode improvement of the attributes, such as safety,
of public transport in the province, the data that were connectivity, comfort, etc. of these modes,
collected can be considered as highly definitive as especially the public ones, could allow for a better
almost every person has experienced riding this transport system in the province. Furthermore, future
mode at one point in their life. This mode got the studies could also look into new alternative transport
high average of rating for attributes like comfort and modes and how they could alleviate the existing
connectivity. However, among the factors issues that are being raised by the local commuters.
considered, the local government unit could still take
some actions and focus in improving the safety,
connectivity and comfortability of tricycle so that it

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