The Indications of Activity Duration, Built Environment, Past Behavior, Behavioral Desire, and Volition Effects on Public Transportation Usage

Abstract

Over the years, various studies have been made to determine how a person’s travel behavior and its driving forces. Precedent studies stated that psychological mechanism combined with space-time variables contributed to people’s travel behavior. Integration between social psychological mechanism and spatiotemporal variables is supposed to describe the difficulty in shifting people to public transportation. Within severe traffic congestion particularly in cities of developing countries, the presence of public transportations has been mentioned in numerous studies to be one of the solutions for traffic congestion. Therefore, initiatives to increase its usage has been promoted diligently. However, research in travel behavior has been focusing on shifting motorized mode users to public transportations without considering the effect of psychological mechanism and spatiotemporal variables. This paper showed evidence supporting relations of spatiotemporal variables and psychological mechanisms in public transportations usage.