Analysis of factors affecting travel behavior of public utility jeepney drivers in their decision making to operate trips to UPLB upper campus

Date

2017

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Adviser/Committee Chair

Crisaulo M. Reynoso

Abstract

There are two main routes for PUJs in UPLB; "Kana" route and "Kaliwa" route which only revolves around the lower campus. There is another route which revolves around the upper campus, the Forestry route. However, there are only some PUJ that make routes going to upper campus. This study aims to define the factors that affect the travel behavior of public utility jeepney drivers in their decision making of operating trips going to UPLB upper campus. The factors that were considered are chosen route, the capability of the vehicle to make trips to the upper campus, generated daily income, number of passengers going to upper campus, and the location of the upper campus. Also, this study also aims to know the responses of the drivers to proposed solutions in regarding to traveling to upper campus. The proposed solutions are fare increase, new traffic scheme, and terminal station. A survey was conducted at different times of the day for a week. Logistic regression analysis and Decision Tree analysis were used to analyze the survey. It was found that only the number of passengers is statistically significant factor among the attributes considered. It was also determined that only the new traffic scheme would likely increase the number of PUJ drivers that will make trips to the upper campus based on the responses of the drivers.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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