Valuing Willingness to Pay for Improved Public Transport: A Case of Commuter Buses in Dodoma City Tanzania.

Nyamaliza, Hussein Abdul (2020) Valuing Willingness to Pay for Improved Public Transport: A Case of Commuter Buses in Dodoma City Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Poor transport service in public transport commuter buses has become one of the issues in big cities. The main objective of this study was to value willingness to pay for improved public transport through level seat in Dodoma city, Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed at determining mean willingness to pay for improved public transport through level seat, identifying the effect of traveler distance on willingness to pay for improved public transport through level seat and evaluating the contribution of traveler time on willingness to pay for improved public transport through level seat. This paper employs a contingent valuation (CV) method under qualitative and quantitave research design approach to determine pupblic transport user willingness to pay (WTP) for improved public transport through level seat. A primary survey data with a total of 744 respondents composed of 304 public transport operators and 444 public transport users used for the analysis. Routes were grouped according to transport fare set by LATRA, and only group of four routes was determined such groups were for routes operating under LATRA transport fare of TSH.750, 500, 450 and 400. The results demonstrate that the mean willingness to pay for grouped routes were as follows; TSH.1100, 880, 780 and 750 per trip respectively. The results also showed that travel distance, travel time, monthly income, daladala service condition and type of transport mostly used have significant effects on the willingness to pay for improved public transport through level seat. Keywords: Daladala, public transport & Willingness to pay.

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