1.

0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

As we all know in this modern world there are many types of transportation had
been invented to help people to go from places to places. With the development of
science and technology, the transportation have already become the important
component in our daily life gradually. Vehicles make our life convenient and swift.
Many people are very attached to their vehicles. They say that having a vehicle is an
essential part of their lives.
Same as UTMs students, vehicles become a very important thing in campus.
There are many transportation that can be used by the students.
In a large urban area, there are some good reasons for owing a car. First, a car
allows a person to move freely. With a car, time and place are no longer the problem.
One can go anywhere he wants to. There is no need to check a bus schedule or wait
for a train. Second, driving a car is a comfortable way for traveling, especially in
winter. In bad weather, the driver can stay dry and warm in the car, while poor bus
and train riders might have to stand in the rain . Finally, a driver is usually safe in a
car at night. The rider might need to walk down a dark street to get to a stop, or wait
on a dark corner.

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The numbers of SPACE students in UTMKL is increases. Many of these students

have their own vehicles for their own convenience. The increasing in the numbers of
cars in UTM causes a major problem that is the insufficiency of parking lots to park
their car during weekend classes. So a research study in UTMKL students method of
transportation is conducted.

1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

There are many SPACE students in UTMKL and each of them has their own
transportation. In response to this fact, a research committee was set up to conduct a
research study. The purpose of the study is to know SPACE students transportation
and why parking problem occurs during weekend classes.

1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objectives of this study are as below:

To know the most common of transportation used by SPACE students in
UTMKL
To identify the factors that causes the problem of the parking lot.
To rectify the effect of having this problem to students
To recommend solution to overcome the parking problems in UTM KL
during weekend classes

1.5 RESEARCH QUESTION

What are the transportation that are highly used by SPACE students in
UTMKL
What the factors that causes the problem of the parking lot?
What the effect of having this problem to students?
What can be done to overcome the parking problems in UTM KL during
weekend classes?

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The findings of this study are very important as it can help the UTMKL
management to provide more parking lots for SPACE students in UTMKL. This study
is help UTMKL to improve parking system become more smoothly and no traffic
congested. This research also will help students not to frustrated and feel lazy to class.

1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study is conducted to know the relationship of transportation and gender by

SPACE students in UTMKL. The respondents were SPACE students and staffs in
UTMKL. All the respondents were randomly selected by research team themselves.
The data were collected via questionnaires that were distributed from June.to June
this year and Survey pertaining summons that was issued by security department
due to double layer parking, no sticker or overdue sticker and parking in restricted
parking lots

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 DEFINITION OF TRANPORTATION

Before there were transportations, people generally traveled on foot or by horse

and buggy over unpaved the roads. Whether they lived in the city or the country, they
rarely went farther than a few miles from home. They saw the same people and places
year after year. The automobile has probably changed people's way of life more than
any other invention of the last century according to website www.wikipedia.com.
The vehicles opened up whole new worlds. Roads were paved, and motorists
went to see different parts of the country. Some decided to stay. People with vehicles
could live farther from their jobs, and so the age of commuting began. New suburbs
sprang up around the cities. The auto industry boomed, and millions of Americans
made a living manufacturing, selling, servicing, or insuring vehicles.

2.2 HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION

The History of Transportation spans the entire history of man. Early Paleolithic
and Neolithic man walked through his world on his own two legs, and couldn't
transport more than he was able to carry on his back. In the late Neo-lithic, Beasts of
Burden began to be used after animal domestication (the horse would be domesticated
around 2000 B.C. and a few animals predate that), but even then they could only carry
what could be loaded onto or tied to their animal's backs. At some point early man
became ambitious enough to want to move large stones or other heavy objects, and
human ingenuity devised the log roller for this task. There is evidence that many
cultures in many geographic areas used simple log roller technology, but dating this is
tricky. It is likely that wear on extensively used log rollers eventually inspired the
development of the wheel. A lot of the early information is theoretical and
undocumentable for History as such, and is really more in the domain of Archeology

or Anthropology, but is the preface to the History of Transportation according to

transportationhistory.suite101.com/blog

2.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION

Developments in technology and science has brought people many great

inventions. In transportation, the invention of the automobile have had an enormous
impact on modern society. That will be a shortcoming if we dont mention the
invention of jet transportation. As far as I am concerned, it is the greatest importance
in transportation. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT):
"Transportations vital importance to the U.S. economy is underscored by the fact that
more than $1 out of every $10 produced in the U.S. gross domestic product is related
to transportation activity. This includes all aspects of transportation, including the
movement of goods and the purchase of all transportation-related products and
services as well as the movement of people."
In conclusion, although jet transportation has advantages as well as
disadvantages, it is still the greatest importance in the development of transportation.
It is useful to people, safes time, promotes economics and makes nations closer.

2.4 CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSPORTATION

The field of transport has several aspect; loosely they can be divided into a triad
of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport
networks such as rod, railways, waterways, canals, pipelines that are used, as well as
the nodes or terminals such as airports, railways stations, bus stations and seaports.
The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, bicycles, buses and
etc. the operations deal with the way the vehicles are operated on the network and the
procedures set for this purpose including the legal environment as cited in

www.wikipedia.com.
For this research, the transportation included in road transportation such as car,
motorcycle, bicycle, bus and taxi. This transportation classification as an automobile
is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor.

3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 INTRODUCTION

This part discusses the methodology of the research. The main objective of the
research is to investigate why the parking problem in UTMKL occur during weekend
classes and what is the factors that cause the problems of the parking lot. The research
was conducted in the University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur area.
All students and staff in UTMKL were randomly selected for this research. Data for
the research were collected through questionnaire and numbers of summons that was
issued out by security department.

3.2 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS

The instruments that were used to collect the data were questionnaire. The
questionnaire contains 10 questions and divided into 3 section which is section (a)
demographic study, section (b) the mode of transportation and lastly section (c)
suggestion and an opinion. The questions type is yes-no, category, and opened
questions. The secondary data were collected from security department is total
numbers of summons issued. Both of this quantitative data us utilize in this research.

3.3 RESPONDENT OF THE STUDY

The respondents of the study were from any year of undergraduates in UTMKL.
The respondents were not chosen by the courses or colleges but were chosen by
gender. In June 2008, a total of 100 questionnaires were distributed to students and
staff. The questionnaires were distributed half to the male which mean 50
questionnaires to the male students and staff while the other 50 were female students
and staff. This is because; we want to make a balance research among the respondents

or among the gender of the students and staff.

3.4 ERSEARCH PROCEDURE

The research was conducted by distributing the questionnaires at various location

on UTMKL campus, such as the entrance to the main library, cafeterias, faculties and
also colleges. The questionnaires were distributes to students and staff. The
questionnaires were divided 50 questionnaires for male and the rest of 50 for female.
The research was evaluated between the genders so it was divided into half for each
gender. There were collection data for numbers of summons issued by security
department.

3.5 DATA ANALYSIS

To analyze the data, a total of four variables were taken for consideration to make
the data precise which are gender, type of transportation, study purpose and parking
issued. Data will be counted up by using Microsoft Excel software and were entered
to computer by hand and will be calculated by the computer. The consequences were
presented throughout frequency counts and other evocative statistics. Same things
when use for secondary data provided by security department. The field-notes from
the observation were transcribed, and data from the questioner sheet were analyze and
tabulated in tables.