2025 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 288-302
Walking is an active mode of transport that does not cost money and is healthy. Supporting sustainable transport by transit requires people's willingness to walk as an alternative mode of transport for first/last mile trips. However, unlike in many cities in developed countries, there are various challenges for people to walk in some cities in developing countries. This study aims to explain why people prefer not to walk to access the nearest public transport (PT) stop. The research uses the city of Makassar in Indonesia as case study. Data are obtained from interviews with two types of groups within the similar population i.e., 192 samples of PT users (Bus-based) and 463 samples of non-PT users within the Makassar population. Descriptive statistics and thematic coding were used for data analysis. The results shows that 63.54% of the PT users are not willing to walk to/from the nearest stops to their destination. On the other hand, 48.60% of the non-PT users are not willing to walk to the nearest PT service despite the short distance. The main reasons why the respondents do not want to walk even for a short distance are due to owning/preferring motorized vehicles. Since most of the travel distance greater than 1km among residents with high dependency on private vehicles, walking infrastructure is not the main priority to support the implementation of the transit system.
