Valuing Willingness to Pay for Improved Public Transport

Dachi, Kassim K. (2023) Valuing Willingness to Pay for Improved Public Transport. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

In the world today, mostly developing countries have serious problems with the smooth operation of public transport. In addition, poor public transport service has caused the shift of public transport users to private transport users due to the absence of the desired comfort services that passengers need to consider when using their private mode of transport. The main objective of this study was to value willingness to pay for improved public transport in Dar es Salaam (DSM), Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed at determining average fare willingness to pay for improved public transport, identifying the effect of traveler distance and evaluating the contribution of traveler time on willingness to pay for improved public transport. A primary survey data with a total of 296 respondents. The results demonstrate that the mean willingness to pay for grouped routes were as follows; for the routes operating under TSH.750, transport users are willing to pay the average amount of TSH.1100 per trip, Routes operating underTSH.500 , transport users are willing to average amount of TSH.880 per trip, Routes operating under TSH.450, transport users are willing to pay the average amount of TSH.780 per trip, and the routes operating under TSH.400, transport users are willing to pay the average amount of TSH.750 per trip. The results also showed that travel distance, travel time have a significant effect on the willingness to pay for public transport improvements. Based on these findings, several policies have been recommended for the government of Tanzania to increase the use of public bus transport, the government needs to reduce the use of private vehicles by focusing on significant efforts to continuously improve the quality of public bus transport. Keywords: Willingnes to Pay, Public Transport, Communterqueue, Transport.

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