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

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

It can also be seen from the graph that only
3% and 1% of the total respondents chose Jeepney
and Taxi, respectively. Jeepneys are unreliable and
inefficient mode of transportation. [3] Aside from it
having no designated loading and unloading zones,
it has no protection against pollution and extreme
weather conditions. Despite these, commuters tend
to choose this mode because it has the cheapest fare
[8]
cost of 10 pesos at minimum. On the other hand,
the least chosen alternative is Taxi because Taxi
Fig 4.2 Distribution of respondents based scams incidents are rampant wherein some drivers
on average number of passengers per route (by demand a higher fare cost than the Taxi meter.
percentage)

4.2 Descriptive Analysis

Fig 4.4 Age and gender relationship of commuters
Fig. 4.3 Alternative modes of transportation of
commuters who already tried P2P Fig. 4.4 shows the age and gender
characteristics of the respondents who have already
Fig. 4.3 shows that 40% of the total tried using the P2P Bus Service. Based on the graph,
respondents uses private vehicle as their alternative the young adults that have an age range of 16 to 25
mode of transportation. Using private vehicle is the years old yielded the highest number of respondents
most common way of getting around Metro Manila equivalent to 210 which is about 62.7% of the total
[4] . It is a door-to-door mode which means that it does respondents and age range of 66 to 75 years old has
not require any mode transfer from origin to the lowest number of respondents having only 6
destination and this characteristic is similar to an which is about 1.8%. According to Davidov et. al.,
app-related mode like Grab chosen by 17% of the gender and age play a significant role in transport
total respondents. Grab is considered as a public mode choice.
mode of transportation with the characteristics of a
private vehicle. The difference of it is its additional Age group 13-24 ranks shopping in the mall
service for driver and its accessibility through as the most favorite activity which means that this
various devices. Also, the fare cost of Grab is highly age group has a higher probability of being aware of
dependent on the travel demand of commuters. the newly introduced P2P aside from using
Therefore, there is no definite fare cost for every trip influential platforms such as Facebook compared to
[9]
in this kind of transportation mode. other age groups. It can also be observed that most
respondents are female having a total of 187.
Public modes of transportation such as According to Kuhn et. al., women have maintenance
Van/FX/UV, Bus, LRT/MRT, Jeepney and Taxi activities such as buying grocery to malls and
were chosen by 16%, 14%, 9%, 3% and 1%, shopping. On other hand, men have recreational
respectively. Van/FX/UV, Bus and LRT/MRT are activities such as playing sports. Since most P2P
being used by commuters due to its affordability terminals are located in malls, the probability of
compared to other modes, even if there are a lot of women who already tried using the P2P Buses is
disadvantages such as overcrowding, increase in higher compared to men.
mode transfers, safety and over-all serviceability.

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