Abstract
This research aims to study driver behaviour of public transit bus at Batu Feringghi road in Penang island of Malaysia. The study investigates the relation of driver behaviour; speed and acceleration, with road geometry and passenger perception. The data were collected from 27 bus journeys with 22 different bus drivers in the period of June to July 2014. The findings include 1) the Batu Feringghi road design is inconsistent in terms of operational speed and posted speed limit, 2) the combination of horizontal and vertical alignments can influence the driver behaviour, 3) the tendency to speed is twice linearly significant for road-familiar drivers compared to driving-experience drivers, 4) the driver characteristics (age and experience) are negatively significant to the lateral and longitudinal accelerations, and 5) the occupant comfort is a function of acceleration but not the speed, and the standard deviation parameters as the most suitable identifiers for this function.
