Youth Travel Behavior and Road Safety in Bandung Municipality: A Preliminary Study
The rapid development of Bandung Municipality in the era of sustainable development nowadays, resulted an increase of the type, number, and intensity of the population that led to the increasing mobility of youth travel behavior especially at the age 15 to 24. From several expert’s review, individual travel behavior was influenced by some factors such as travel frequency, distance, travel cost, destination, and choice of transportation mode. This research aimed is to describe the youth travel behavior mobility especially mode choices and its correlation to mixed land use. This research is using quantitative methods and descriptive approach. The result showed that motorcycle dominated the mode choice in mixed land use with high and medium entropy, while public transportation was highest in the low entropy mixed land use. Our data support that generally the youth travel behavior tends to disobey the traffic rules, thus has high risk accident. Learn more