Cars have been transformed from luxury vehicle into daily use transportation.
Moreover, the ownership of car has been increased tremendously in Jakarta for the
past 5 years. Therefore, by understanding the preference of both car and non-car
owners toward transportation modes including MRT estimated to be operated
commercially in 2019, will help the policy maker to sharpen the broad policies and
encourage private vehicular to use public transportation modes.
The purpose of this study is intended to obtain the preferences and experiences of
people towards transportation mode for shopping purpose in Jakarta as well as
understanding the awareness towards environment. The questions are using 7
accompanying structures and group of ages. The respondents are car and non-car
owners while the area of study is in Kota Kasablanka (Kokas) Mall, South Jakarta.
The chi-square test of independence is performed to obtain the differences of
transport mode use frequency based on daily activities. The results then are
compared with distribution table of Chi-square. However, mean and standard
deviation are used to examine the preference of respondents.
The result of this study shows the preferences with 31 out of 35 questions car
owners have higher rating for car usage and there are few significant differences
regarding environmental issues/awareness. The respondents appear to give low
ratings on suitability of public transportation for elderly people/parents and
children. The result indicates that the required amount of walking, goods must be
carried, exposed pollution, protection from weather, safety from crime are inducing
the low rating on public transportations.