Influence of large commercial building on park and ride utilization in Bangkok | |
| Author | Tohata, Eito |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.TE-14-04 |
| Subject(s) | Park buildings--Thailand--Bangkok Local transit--Thailand--Bangkok |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Transportation Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Most of the Asian cities are experiencing severe transport problems resulting from rapidly increasing vehicle ownership and usage. One of the reasons may be due to insufficient supply and inferior quality of public transportation. Of course public transport as an alternative to the private vehicle is generally less convenient than the use of a private vehicle, but it has the important advantages of being less polluting, more efficient in road spaces. Therefore, public transportation should be promoted instead of private car. In Bangkok, Thai government plans to construct 12 mass rapid transit lines for solving serious traffic congestion. One of the new MRT line is Purple line. As MRT extension plan, Purple line starts to operate in 2016. In this line, the park & ride which is faced to large commercial building is constructed. Therefore, the mutual influence between large commercial building and park & ride interests transportation engineers. According to many study of utilization of Park & Ride, travel time and provision are evaluated for estimating demand of park & ride. However, it is assumed that the surroundings situation around park & ride also affects utilization of park & ride in reality. Especially, presence of large commercial building cannot be ignored in sight of promotion of park & ride and Mass Rapid Transportation use. There is no paper regarding mutual influence between park & ride and large commercial building. Therefore, in this study, large commercial building is focused on in sight of utilization promotion of park & ride. The objectives of this study are to reveal influence on promotion of Park & Ride use by large commercial building and to suggest how to promote utilization of park & ride on Purple line. At beginning we hypothesized that large commercial buildings enable people to promote utilization of the park & ride. In order to clarify the objectives of this thesis, the questionnaire survey was conducted in Bangkok for Thai. We could get in total 308 samples . Based on the questionnaire survey, the relationship was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)and Binary logit model. At First, it is presented the large commercial building influenced the promotion of park & ride utilization. As a result, the building which connects park &ride can rise 10 percent of share of park & ride choice in purple line. On the other hand, the satisfaction of MRT has strongly relation to utilization of park & ride. Especially, the current MRT services such as punctuality and frequency enable people to promote utilization of the park & ride. In order to promote the utilization of the park & ride, The installation of CCTV cameras I the park & ride is also very effective. |
| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Transportation Engineering (TE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Kunnawee Kanitpong; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Nakatsuji, Takashi;Kishi, Kunihiro; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Hokkaido University, Japan; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2014 |