Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 23 (3): 473-478, 2015 ISSN 1990-9233 © IDOSI Publications, 2015 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2015.23.03.22124 Corresponding Author: Atik Wahyuni, Department of Civil Engineering, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia. 473 Mode Selection Model of Female Public Transportation Atik Wahyuni, Harnen Sulistio, Achmad Wicaksono and Ludfi Djakfar Department of Civil Engineering, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia Abstract: Many problems faced by women nowadays who use public transportations are mainly about trip fare, comfort and safety. By the increasing rate of violence and crimes happen to women in public and in public transportations, it is necessary to conduct a research about the needs of female public transportation. This research aims to create a model about the necessity of public transportation for women with a certainty of safety, comfort and affordable fare. The method used in this research is by surveying female passenger respondents about the characteristics of social economy, trip and stated preference. The result of this research is a model of female public transportation mode selectionU – U = 0,419 + 0,104 X where this equation AUP AU 6, close to the precision of the model. Key words: Public transportation Female Stated Preference INTRODUCTION constraints and problems for women to use the public Public transportation users in several metropolitan important thing is there are a lot of violence toward cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta and Surabaya, for the women especially at night. Besides, the culture norms or bus passengers in Jakarta, especially busway, the female even traditional clothes prevent females to access public passengers proportion takes 55%, while the male transportation modes and two-wheeled vehicles [4]. passengers proportion takes 45% [5]. Female passengers The priority and essential issue of creating the most are nominating the public transportations not only in appropriate transportation system for passenger is safety Indonesia. Based on the data from world bank of South [5]. Women must be the central role and are accustomed Africa, there are 29% female and 21% male workers who to take this challenge, because they have to hold the use public transportation [1]. In Pune-India, public responsible in pursuing women’s right in public and transportation users are 50% female and 35% male, in public transportation. Dhaka-Bangladesh public transportation users are 52% female and 38% male, in Ashgabat-Turkmensitan public MATERIALS AND METHODS transportation users are 58% female and 50% male and in Lima-Peru public transportation users are 95% female and This research was conducted by surveying female 85% male. In all over the Europe, female is lesser to use respondents who take public transportations daily either private transportation, whereas the majority who use to school, university or office. Majority of the public transportations is female, in Swedia 70% of private respondents have outdoor activities such as school, transportation users are male and in France 60% male who university or office. lives outside Paris travel using private transportations. The main research locations were at the university Meanwhile, two third of the public transportation and industrial areas due to the high demand of passengers are female and in United States in 2007, 55% transportation activities. The survey was conducted in of public transportation users are female [2]. Malang and Yogyakarta as representative of the students Women with low income and especially unmarried and Muslims majority, while Batam represents industrial depend on mass transportations, due to financial problem city which had the equal number of Muslims and that is preventing them from owning a private vehicle [3]. Non-Muslims. The total respondents of this research Besides the trip fare problem, there are still more were 1060 female with the characteristics as below: transportation, such as about the policy and the most