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5.2. Research Questions
The study has five research propositions and we will discuss them in the
following part.
Proposition 1: People do not travel by West Rail mainly because of the need for
interchanging with other public transport to get to the destination
Descriptive statistics is used to determine the reasons for bus passengers not
choosing to travel on West Rail. Question 8 of the questionnaire asks the bus
passengers to give marks for each of the reasons. Those statements are measured in
7-point Likert scale in which 1 means “Strongly disagree, 4 means Neutral and 7
means “Strongly agree”. The mean score of all the reasons are being compared to see
if the need of interchanging with other public transport is the most important reason of
not traveling West Rail.
Table 5.2.1 indicates that the results support the proposition. The reason of
too many times of interchanging with other transportation is the major reason of not
choosing West Rail. It gets a score of 5.86, which is the highest among all the other
reasons. They strongly agree that the need for interchanging with other transports
discourage them to travel West Rail. The mean ratings of the reason of inconvenient
stations and expensive fare are 5.73 and 5.48 respectively. They are also important
reasons for bus passengers not to travel on West Rail. The unsafe trip rates the lowest
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