jailcd2019-033: Influences of Feeder Modes on Transit Node’s Station: A Case Study of Bangkok Mass Transit Node

Abstract

Improving mass transit accessibility might be one of the helpful solutions to enhance the existing mass transit performance and hopefully for the future. Paratransit shows their capability as both complementary mode and feeder mode to other public transits, especially in the areas left by the public transits. Therefore, an idea of implementing paratransit as a feeder system for mass transits not only provides easy connectivity to mass transits, but also utilizes existing resources, advantages and performances of paratransit that should not be overlooked. Paratransit has potential to carry people to public transits; however, the existing paratransit services are considered informal, not well-organized and dissatisfied. Therefore, passenger perceptions are strongly required to study on opportunity for implementing paratransit as a feeder system. Service attributes assessed by passengers such as comfort, convenience, and etc. must be captured and evaluated. Moreover,  perceptions should be classified for each user group in order to understand passenger’s attitude on service  attributes. It is important to identify the potential strength, weakness, and passengers’ satisfaction of feeder  mode services. The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential of feeder mode, and to explore the  effects of passengers’ satisfaction to attitudes concerning mass transit connectivity among different passengers’ income levels.