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A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN KOTA KINABALU CITY THIEN CHEN YAN PERPU TA; UNIVERS ITI S A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MASTER DEGREE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SABAH 2007

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A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN KOTA KINABALU CITY

THIEN CHEN YAN

PERPU TA; ',".:~ UNIVERS ITI ~t.ALAY,)Il\ S 8ft~

A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

MASTER DEGREE

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SABAH

2007

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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH

BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS TESIS

JUDUL:A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN KOTA KINABALU CITY

IJAZAH: SARJANA SAINS (PENGURUSAN SEKITARAN)

SESI PENGAJIAN: 2005 - 2006

Saya THIEN CHEN YAN mengaku membenarkan tesis Sarjana ini disimpan di

Perpustakaan Universiti Malaysia Sabah dengan syarat-syarat kegunaan seperti

berikut:

1. Tesis adalah hakmilik Universiti Malaysia Sabah;

2. Perpustakaan Universiti Malaysia Sabah dibenarkan membuat salinan untuk

tujuan pengajian sahaja;

3. Perpustakaan dibenarkan membuat salinan tesis ini sebagai bahan

pertukaran antara pengajian tinggi;

4. TIDAK TERHAD.

Disahkan oleh:

vtL! PERPUSTAKAAN

UNIVERSlTI MALAYSIA Sl\B~1.l

(Penulis: THIEN CHEN YAN)

Alamat Tetap:

(TANDATANGAN PUSTAKAWAN)

No. 26, Taman Mitzi,

89608, Papar, Sabah

Tarikh: 2 Julai 2007

(Penyelia: DR. BONAVENTURE VUN LEONG WAN)

CATATAN: Tesis dimaksudkan sebagai tesis ijazah Doktor Falsafah dan Sarjana secara

penyelidikan atau disertasi bagi pengajian secara kerja kursus dan penyelidikan atau

Laporan Projek Sarjana Muda (LPSM)

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TITLE

DEGREE

VIVA DATE

CERTIFICATION

A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN KOTA KINABALU CITY

MASTER OF SCIENCE (ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE)

15 May 2007

DECLARED BY

1. DR. BONAVENTURE VUN LEONG WAN Supervisor

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DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the material in this thesis is my own except for quotations, excerpts, equations, summaries and references, which have been duly acknowledge.

1 July 2008

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ACKNOWLEDGEM ENT

Firstly, I would like to thank Dr. Bonaventure Vun Leong Wan, the lecturer of School of Science and Technology, University Malaysia Sabah willing to be my supervisor of this dissertation and give me lots of advice to accomplish the work punctually. It's my honour to work with him and hopefully in the future as well .

Secondly, thanks to the tolerance of my colleagues who privileged me to work on my dissertation during working hour and also my friends to help on various aspects.

Finally, thanks to my family to provide me a comfortable environment to work on the dissertation and also unlimited supports on mentally and financially.

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ABSTRACT

A STUDY ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES IN KOTA KINABALU CITY

This study has been carried out to understand the relationship between the sustainability of Kota Kinabalu city and its public transportation system and also to propose a reformation plan to enhance the current system as ineffective public transport system would retard the city from heading towards sustainable development. Through the study on the current service system, some negative factors influencing the development and effectiveness of the present public transportation system have been identified and also found that the ineffective management is the root of these negatives factors. To overcome these problems, a suggestion to implement centralized management and vertical supervision to the current public bus system has been put forward. The central idea of this proposal is for the government to take over fully the operation and work out the contract for different routes; contractors have to proceed with a bidding process before they obtain the right and only one contractor can operate at the specific route. Through the reformation, the authorities would be able to supervise and manage the system easier. The proposal also introduces the step to implement the new system and the way to solve the negative effect after the reformation.

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ABSTRAK

Kajian ini te/ah dija/ankan untuk meninjau perhubungan di antara kemampanan Bandaraya Kota Kinaba/u dan system pengangkutan awam serta mencadangkan satu usu/an untuk menambahbaik sistem yang tersedia ada. Ini ada/ah kerana ketldakcekapan sistem perkhimatan pengangkutan awam akan mempengaruhi pembangunan mampan Bandaraya Kota Kinaba/u. Me/a/ui kajian in~ beberapa faktor negatif yang menjejaskan keberkesanan sistem yang tersedia ada te/ah dikena/pasti dan didapati pengurusan yang tidak efektif merupakan asas kepada factor-faktor negatlf ini. Untuk menangani masa/ah in~ satu usu/an yang mencadangkan pengurusan berpusat ada/ah dicadangkan. Ide utama usu/an ini ada/ah di mana kerajaan mengambi/ a/ih sepenuhnya operasi dan menge/uarkan kontrak untuk rangkaian ja/an yang berbeza. Kontraktor per/u me/a/ui satu proses tender sebe/um mereka diberikan kebenaran untuk beroperasi. Me/a/ui reformasi in~ pihak berkuasa dapat mengawa/se/ia dan mengurus sistem ini dengan /eblh mudah. Usu/an ini juga mencadangkan /angkah-/angkah untuk memperkena/kan sistem baru ini dan cara­cara untuk mengatasi kesan negatif se/epas reformasi ini.

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2.1.2 The Impacts to the Economy Development 9

2.2 Introduction of Well Developed Public Transport 13

2.3 The Advantages of the Public Bus Service 14

2.4 The Public Bus Service of Kota Kinabalu 15

2.4.1 The Public Bus of Kota Kinabalu 15

2.4.2 The Bus Type and Category of Service In Kota Kinabalu City 16

2.4.3 The Existing Routes and Terminal 17

2.4.4 The Operators 19

2.4.5 The Related Agencies and Organization 22

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 25

3.1 The Study Methodology 25

3.1.1 On Site Observation 26

3.1.2 Visit Related Agencies and People 26

3.1.3 Questionnaire 26

3.2 Result Analysis 27

CHAPTER 4: THE STUDY AND DISCUSSION 28

4.1 Introduction 28

4.2 Public Response to Public Bus 28

4.2.1 The Result of Survey 28

4.2.2 The Conclusion of Survey 33

4.3 The Factors Retard the Development of the Current Public Bus 33 Service

4.3.1 The Congenital Factors 33

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4.3.2 The Human Factors 34

4.4 The Predicament of Big Transportation Companies 43

4.5 The Roots Induced the Retarding Factors of Kota Kinabalu Public Bus 45 Service

4.5.1 Decentralized Management 45

4.5.2 Insufficiency of Resources 46

4.5.3 Lack of Monitoring 46

4.5.4 The Qualification Verification 46

4.5.5 The Quality of Operators 46

4.6 A Better Public Bus Service System 47

4.6.1 Condition for an Effective Public Bus Service System 47

4.7 The Reformation of the Public Bus Service System 48

4.7.1 The New Form of Operation 48

4.7.2 The Function of the Independent Unit 49

4.7.3 The Contractors 49

4.7.4 The Organization Structure 52

4.7.5 The advantages of the Reformation 52

4.7.6 The Implementation Step of the Reformation 55

4.8 Promotion of Public Transportation System 56

4.8.1 Car Free Day 57

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND THE SUGGESTION 58

5.1 Conclusion 58

5.2 The Suggestions for the Future Study 58

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REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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LIST OF FIGURES

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Figure 2.1 The distribution of the income of a teacher, admin officer and 12 an engineer in of Kota Kinabalu city.

Figure 2.2 The hypothetical scenario without (Before) and with (After) 15 public bus on road

Figure 2.3 The proportion of bus on all routes in Kota Kinabalu city 18

Figure 2.4 The proportion of the licensed operators 22

Figure 3.1 The flow chart of study 25

Figure 4.1 The purpose people take bus 29

Figure 4.2 The reason of people refuses to take bus 30

Figure 4.3 The aspect people suggest need to be improved 31

Figure 4.4 The impression of people to the current public service 32

Figure 4.5 The proportion of people's inclination to the service after the 32 improvement

Figure 4.6 The flow chart of the process to obtain operating permit 50

Figure 4.7 The organization structure 52

Figure 4.8 The organization structure before and after the reformation 53

Figure 4.9 The process of the tracing of incident before and after the 54 reformation

Figure 4.10 The step to implement the reformation 56

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LIST OF TABLES

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Table 2.1 The number of vehicle registered in Sabah from 2000 until 2005 9

Table 2.2 The amount of accident occurred in 2005 end 2006 in Kota 11 Kota Kinabalu city

Table 2.3 The color representing the respective bus' category 16

Table 2.4 The amount of buses on respective routes 17

Table 3.1 The list of agencies and people 26

Table 4.1 The statistic data from the questionnaire 29

Table 4.2 The summary of advantages to the respective party 55

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LIST OF PHOTOS Page

Photo 2.1 A gas station in Kota Kinabalu 7

Photo 2.2 The cars parking at illegal place 8

Photo 2.3 The road widening construction causes the losing of green 8 plant

Photo 2.4 The map and list of some congested roads and areas in Kota 10 Kinabalu city

Photo 2.5 The private car is very common in Kota Kinabalu city 11

Photo 2.6 The public bus terminal of Kota Kinabalu city 19

Photo 2.7 The appearances of the T.U.T (right) and P.U.T (left) buses 21

Photo 2.8 The buses of small transportation companies 21

Photo 4.1 The illegal pull over 35

Photo 4.2 The illegal operation 35

Photo 4.3 The incompetent personnel 36

Photo 4.4 The waiting bus 37

Photo 4.5 Disregard on regulation and rules 37

Photo 4.6 The examples of provision of information 39

Photo 4.7 The appearance of old buses 40

Photo 4.8 The disunity on external appearance 41

Photo 4.9 The complaint number 42

Photo 4.10 The vicious challenge from the state car company 43

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LIST OF APPENDICES

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Appendix A The car registration statistic of year 2004 62

Appendix B The questionnaire 63

Appendix C The operating conditions and application conditions of 64 respective service category

Appendix 0 The route table 66

Appendix E The map of public bus route in Kota Kinabalu city 68

Appendix F The PUSPAKOM testing categories and purpose 69

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 PREFACE

The rapid population growth in Kota Kinabalu has not only increased the number of

sales of cars, it has also caused severe traffic congestion for the residents of Kota

Kinabalu City over the past few years. The congestion gets worse during peak traffic

hours between 0800 to 1000 and 1700 to 1900 throughout the city's major inbound

or outbound routes. Most of the vehicles on the road are private cars and mostly

occupied with one or two passengers.

Traffic congestion is only one of the negative impacts that could be identified

visually, there are many' other impacts which are invisible. While people get frustrated

for being caught in the middle of traffic jam, it brings inverse impacts to the

environment simultaneously, such as the fuel consumed by the car, the hazardous

emission discharged from the exhaust pipe, the time wasted waiting in the car, the

car installment that has to be paid every month etc. Why do people have to endure

all these? How can people lives improve with a better public transportation system?

Sustainability is the hottest topic among all big and small cities around the world,

and Kota Kinabalu city is no exception. The transportation problem is a crucial factor

to determine the sustainability of every city and also an important criterion to

evaluate its sustainability (Deakin, 2003). Kota Kinabalu city will have difficulties in

achieving better sustainability should the transportation problem be unresolved.

Inevitably, transportation problem is a very common phenomenon that is

encountered by most cities in the world. It is an accumulative proble.m due to various

factors, such as ineffectiveness in the existing roadway system, large volume of

vehicles and poor public transportation system. The transportation problem can

potentially bring many negative impacts, both economical and environmental, to a

city. To mitigate the transportation problems for a better sustainability of the city, an

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efficient public transportation is vital. This is because it is the very fundamental

means to overcome the problem; an efficient public transportation system ca n

effectively reduce the number of the vehicles on road and the transportation

problems can be resolved consequently. Among the various public transportations,

public bus is the most common modes of public transportation (Black, 1989).

The private cars on the road have increased in an alarming speed within Kota

Kinabalu city over recent years. Nowadays it is very common for every household to

own a personal car. This phenomenon is made possible by the government policies

and many other objective factors. Everyone wants to own a car badly, and the main

reason behind it is everyone thinks that it is very inconvenient to travel around Kota

Kinabalu city without a car. This exposes the fact that the public transportation in

Kota Kinabalu city is indeed very inefficient. As mentioned by Davison and Knowles

(2006), the personal freedom offered by the car, which has enhanced personal

mobility for many years has resulted in an unsustainable transport system in UK. This

is because automotive industry is highly consumptive, using many resources and

producing many waste' products. The rise in car ownership has allowed for the

dispersal of amenities and activity sites, which has in turn encouraged even greater

car use so accessibility is much easily available compared to those provided by public

transports.

In developing countries, public transportation plays a very crucial role in the

development and the sustainability of their cities; it drives the economic activities,

improves the quality of environment and improves efficiency of the limited resources

(UNCHS, 2001). Some countries, like China, due to their insufficient resources and

large population, their government attach a great importance and develop the public

transportation ceaselessly (Wang et aL, 2006).

1.2 THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY IN KOTA KINABALU CITY

The Ex-Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan has .pointed out that

the biggest challenge for the people of 21st century is to achieve sustainable

development (Wang et aI., 2006). Sustainable development is widely defined as the

development of respective regions that meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Generally, a

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sustainable development city has to consider the three E's simultaneously, the

Economy, Environment and Equity (Deakin, 2003).

In the case of KK City, a two-year Sustainable Urban Development Project was

implemented by Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) and co-sponsored by the Danish Co­

operation for Environment and Development in 1999 (DBKK, 2000). Although it was a

short-term project, it proved the government has finally realized the importance of

the sustainability and began to attach importance to the development of sustainability.

1.3 TOWARDS BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

1.3.1 Public Transportation

Along with the increase of the population and the development of the industries, the

city is extending day by day and the interactions between people in the city are more

frequent than the past days; therefore, the public transportation is an important

means to connect the people to each other. The basic purpose to develop the public

transportation is to herp the citizens to make a trip easily and ensure the normal

operation of the fundamental social organizations and their activities. Nevertheless,

the experiences of a number of cities around the world have revealed that the

advantages brought about by an effective public transportation service are not only in

this aspect, it also brings enhancement to the city environment in a quite

comprehensive range.

Public transport, also called public transit or mass transit, consists of all shared­

ride transport service systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own

vehicles. While in general it is presumed only as rail and bus services, wider

definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxicab services and any

system that transports members of the public (www.wikipedia.com. 2005). The

public transportation available in KK city is only public bus and taxi, and the public

bus is more utilized by the public because of its lower cost. Therefore, the public bus

is very important to the public transportation of KK city.

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1.3.2 The Coexistence of the Public Transport and Private Car

Beside the public bus service in the city, the existing private cars in Kota Kinabalu city

cannot be neglected and it is impossible to create a zero private car city. In fact,

coexistence of public bus and private car is possible. For instance, people can take

public bus to go and back from work to avoid congestion whereas they could use

their own cars for leisure purposes such as shopping and dating. Through this way,

the number of private cars in the future can be reduced gradually starting from

reducing the utilization of private cars today. The increasing amount of car utilization

within urban centers will create the problem of congestion and hence will become a

threat to economic growth, poor air quality, noise and even global warming.

1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

1. To study the issues of the existing public bus service in Kota Kinabalu city.

2. To propose a feasible suggestion to enhance the existing public bus service in

Kota Kinabalu city.

1.5 SCOPE OF RESEARCH

This study proposed to study the insufficiency of existing public bus service and

management system in Kota Kinabalu city. These include the appraisal of the existing

management of the operators by related authorities, the service quality provided by

the operators and also the identification of relevant factors or issues that influence

the development and management of public bus service in Kota Kinabalu City.

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CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 THE INFLUENCES OF THE MODERN MOTOR VEHICLE TO THE CITY SUSTAINABILITY

Despite the modern transportation that can bring many undeniable conveniences and

enjoyment to the people, it also undeniably brings numerous negative impacts to the

sustainability of a city. Therefore in fact, while people is enjoying the

accomplishments of conveniences invented by themselves, they are destroying their

own living environment at the same time.

The consequences caused by transport can be either positive or negative. An

example among the positive ones is the improvement in local business, leading to a

better access to goods and services by population thus encouraging the economic

development of the region. On the other hand, the negative aspects can be land

depreciation, air pollution, vibration, noise, segregation, degradation of

environmental quality and the deterioration of fauna and flora around the city areas.

2.1.1 The Impact to the Environment

Along with the increase of the number of motor vehicles, the negative impacts

brought by the motor vehicles have become a major pollutant source to the

environment and has influenced the sustainability of the city. The environmental

pollutions and depleting resources are major negative impacts to the environment.

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a. The Environment Pollution

The environmental pollutions due to the motor vehicles can be various; the air

pollutions and noise pollutions are the major pollution caused by the motor vehicle

(Wark et aL, 1998).

i. Air Pollution

The motor vehicle is one of the biggest non-point pollutant sources of the city. The

major pollutant of air pollution is the gaseous pollutants; these pollutants are the

substances in gaseous forms or as particulates matter discharge to the atmosphere

through human activities that can bring harm and impacts to human and

environment (Brennen et ai, 2005). Motor vehicles are the major sources of gaseous

pollutants in the urban area; the gaseous pollutant has complex components and

contains thousand of chemical substances. The general gaseous pollutants

discharged by the motor vehicle include particulate pollution, Hydrocarbons, carbon

monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur oxides (SOx) (Brennen et ai, 2005).

ii. Noise Pollution

The influences of noise pollution from the transportation to the human body are in

various aspects. The noise pollution does not cause death; it contributes little to the

physical illness but clearly causes psychological stress (Black, 1989).

b. The Resources Depletion Problems

The development of motor vehicle has accelerated the depletion of limited resources

in the environment.

i. Non Renewable Fuel

Crude oil is the most precious non-renewable fuel resources. The price of crude oil is

rocketing nowadays; the political factor is one of the main factors, but the

fundamental factor is that everyone knows that the exploitation of oil cannot last

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forever. It will definitely be exhausted one day. Motor vehicles need a great portion of

motor oil, along with the fast development of the car industry and the increase of the

demand on vehicles, this trend brings a driving demand on the crude oil. The

increase of demand on oil becomes an austere challenge to the provision and safety

of energy (Wright & Nebel, 2002).

Photo 2.1: A gas station in Kota Kinabalu.

ii. Land Consumption

The construction of roads, parking area and other basic facilities would bring

pressure to the land resources. The vehicles need roads to connect every destination

and the construction of roads has to occupy land. In the old times, the roads usually

have two lanes, but due to the development of the society, the traffic flow increases

rapidly and two lanes have to become four lanes. Parking area for cars in the city is a

very severe problem today and the car parks in Kota Kinabalu city are seriously

overloaded. Photo 2.2 shows that people park their cars at illegal place due to

insufficient parking place. Although people try to mitigate the parking area through

multi-floor car parks, the demand is more than provision. More and more car parks

have to be built in the city to satisfy the demand and thus putting more stress on the

available green areas around the city area.

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Photo 2.2: The cars park at illegal place.

iii. Losing of Green Plant

Similar to the depletion of land resources, plants need land to grow and the plants

are very important to the air quality; more greenbelts make better air quality. Due to

the constructions of roads, parking areas and other basic facilities for vehicles, the

plants are losing their habitat. Photo 2.3 shows that a construction site on the major

road of Kota Kinabalu city, the purpose is to widen the existing road to mitigate the

congestion and thus the land and habitat for plants are loss.

Photo 2.3: The road widening construction causes the losing of green plant.

iv. Materials Depleting

The motor vehicle is made of variety of materials, such as metal, rubber, textile and

many toxic chemical components. People need to consume in abundance of these

materials every year and this causes some non-renewable resources such as metal to

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be depleting seriously. Moreover, the exploitation of those materials also causes

negative impacts to the environment simultaneously.

2.1.2 Impact to the Economy Development

a. The Traffic Congestion

The congestion in Kota Kinabalu city happens every working day at the same time at

the same place. Photo 2.4 is the map and list of some congested roads or areas in

Kota Kinabalu city during rush hours (morning and evening) and Table 2.1 is the

table of the number of vehicle registered in Sabah from 2000 until 2005:

Table 2.1: The number of vehicle registered in Sabah from 2000 until 2005.

Type of 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

vehicle

Motorcycle 6,573 4, 399 3,250 5,852 7,429 9, 068

Car 15,439 17, 047 19, 365 24, 306 17, 428 32,139

Bus 203 248 41 44 96 150

Taxi 73 115 147 342 430 408

Truck 1, 759 1, 237 1,429 2, 115 2, 360 2,783

Others 1,854 2, 260 1,229 1,551 8, 993 1, 940

Total 25, 901 25, 306 25,524 34, 210 36, 736 46, 485

Source: JPJ Kota Kinabalu (2006)

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Photo 2.4: The map and list of some congested roads and areas in Kota Kinabalu city: fE G 1. Center of Kota Kinabalu city [J 2. Mat Salleh road and Tunku Abdul Rahman road 2" ..... 3. Putatan road and Kepayan road ~ 4. Tuaran road (Likas area) 5. Tuaran road and Damai Road 6. Bunga Ulam Raja road and Bundusan road.

The roads highlighted on the respective emphasized areas in Photo 2.4 are the

major congested areas, and there are still much small congestions around the Kota

Kinabalu city, such as the junctions without traffic light and roundabout areas.

Through Table 2.1 and Photo 2.4 have clearly showed that the number of cars is

increasing from year to year which is the main factor that induces the congestion .

Private cars in Sabah increase constantly every year. According to the data from JPJ,

there are 609, 911 motor vehicles registered and on the road in Sabah, the

respective numbers are 338,916 private cars, 113,460 motorcycles and 13,347

commercial vehicles (JPJ, 2005). Further reference to the car registration statistic of

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