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An Analysis Of The Demand For Passenger Rail Services In Peninsular Malaysia, Tick Seng Lee Jan 2002

An Analysis Of The Demand For Passenger Rail Services In Peninsular Malaysia, Tick Seng Lee

Student Works (2000-2009)

Rail passenger service is an important part of Malaysia's public transport system where Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) is the only sole provider of intercity rail passenger services in Peninsular Malaysia. For years, there has been a decline in the number of intercity train passengers. This paper attempts to evaluate the factors, which determine the demand for rail passenger services. Binary logit models were built based on the data collected from the train passenger survey and bus passenger survey that were conducted across the Peninsular whereby the socioeconomic and demographic variables were coded into dummy variables so that these variables …


The Dynamic Commercial Structure Of Waterloo, Kitchener, And Cambridge 1989-1999: The Impact Of New Format Retailing (Ontario), Christopher Oakley Jan 2002

The Dynamic Commercial Structure Of Waterloo, Kitchener, And Cambridge 1989-1999: The Impact Of New Format Retailing (Ontario), Christopher Oakley

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In the past to ensure that the economic vitality of existing and future commercial areas were and would be maintained, a regulatory system was developed by both the Regions and Municipalities in Ontario. Their Official Plans were designed to create a hierarchy of retail commercial areas based upon the perceived need to provide adequate retail facilities to consumers without having excess retail space, thereby creating a retail structure that provided access to goods of all types to consumers with minimum transportation costs. However, the distribution of goods and services providers is constantly changing. It is commonly feared that this process …