Trip Generations at “Polyclinic” Land Use Type in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Ishtiaque Ahmed
Associate Professor Department of Geotechnics and Transportation Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknology Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Suleiman Abdulrahman
M.Eng. (Transportation) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Mohd Rosli Hainin
Professor and Head Department of Geotechnics and Transportation Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknology Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia http://civil.utm.my/ishtiaque

Sitti Asmah Hassan
Senior Lecturer Department of Geotechnics and Transportation Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknology Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Abstract

Transportation planners need to estimate the trip generations of different land use types in the travel demand forecasting process. The Trip Generation Manual of Malaysia, similar to the Trip Generation Manual of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, USA, provides the trip generation rate at “Polyclinics” as a function of the Gross Floor Area. However, the data for this rate have no line of best fit resulting in the lack of confidence in the prediction. This study considered ten locations in Malaysia and verified the significance of different parameters, i.e. Number of Doctors, Number of Staff, Gross Floor Area and Density of Similar Clinics within 0.5 kilometre radius in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The study developed regression equations for estimating the peak hours and daily trips at polyclinics in terms of “Number of Doctors”. The developed models can be used in estimating the number of trips generated by the polyclinics in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.