The survey analyzed the travel characteristics of 100 students from the University of Moratuwa. 78% of students lived in boarding houses while 22% commuted from home. For students commuting from home, the majority (45%) came from Zone A along the Galle Road and used public buses. The average travel time for students commuting from home to the university was between 30 minutes to 1 hour. For students living in boarding houses, most (58%) used buses to travel home, with the majority visiting home weekly.

1. TRAVEL
CHARACTERISTICS
BEHIND THE
STUDENTS OF
UNIVERSITY OF
MORATUWA
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2. The travel characteristics behind the students of University of
Moratuwa
Group members
Index no Name contribution
101411U Chamila Jayashan Data entry,3.1
Chandrakesan
101412A Delakshan 4.2,
Suneth
101413D Dharmaparakrama Introduction,2.3,4.4,4.5
Thushan Analysis
101414G Dharmawardana sheet,2.1,2.2,4.6
101415 Kaveen Gayathma 3.1,3.2
101416N Darshana Gunarathna Data entry,3.2
Danushka
101418X karunarathna Analysis sheet,4.1
101419C Tharindu Kodikara 3.3,
101420V Chamil Kodithuwakku 4.3,
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3. TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter 1
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 8
1.1 Nature of problem……………………………………………………………………… 8
1.2 Demographic information……………………………………………………………… 8
1.3 Transportation…………………………………………………………………………... 9
1.4 Procedure of raw data collection………………………………………………………... 9
1.5 Objective of the study…………………………………………………………………… 10
1.6 Analysis sheet…………………………………………………………………………… 11
Chapter 2
Analysis about Non Boarded students……………………………………………………. 13
2.1 The distribution of university students according to level……………………………… 13
2.2 Percentage of students comes from home……………………………………………….. 15
2.3 Average travel time from home to university…………………………………………… 16
Chapter 3
Analysis about Boarded Students…………………………................................................... 17
3.1 Students stay in boarding places………………………………………………………….. 17
3.2 Frequency of students going home according to level……………………………………. 19
3.3 The traffic flow in train routes and analysis regarding preferred train station
to go home……………………………...... 21
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4. Chapter 4
Overall Analysis…………………………………………………………………………… 24
4.1 Mode of transport………………………………………………………………………. 24
4.2 Average cost for come to university……………………………………………………. 28
4.3 University bus service…………………………………………………………………… 30
4.4 Other trip purposes…………………………………........................................................ 32
4.5 Educational trip purposes………………………………………………………………... 34
4.5 Analysis about the destinations of other trip purposes………………………………….. 35
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5. ABSTRACT
This study is based on the travel patterns of the students of University of Moratuwa carried out
seeking their daily travel needs varying on the place they stay and the external activities that the
students are involved.
The objective is to develop mode choice models to predict the traffic demand of the students for
different types of vehicles and to have knowledge about the travel time and the distance of their
trips.
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6. University of Moratuwa
Transport & Logistics Management
All the information collected in this survey will be considered highly confidential and will not be released out
Survey on transport functions behind students in University of Moratuwa..
01.Name ……………………………………………………………………………………
02. Faculty ………………………………………………………………………………….
03. Level 1 2 3 4 Other
04. From where do you come to the university?
1. Home 2. Boarding Place 3.Other
4.1 If home
 Home city and district: ………………………………………/…………………………………….
 Mode of transport:
Private vehicle
Public transport: Bus Train
By foot
 Bus route numbers:
………………………………………
 Train station:
From: …………………..
To: ………………………
4.2 If boarding place
 Approximate distance where you stay: ………………………………………
 How often do you go home:
Once a week
Once a fortnight
Once a month
 The mode of transport
Private vehicle Bus Train
 Bus route numbers: ………………………………………
 Train station:
From: …………………..
To: ………………………
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7. 05. Are you satisfied with your selected mode of transport?
Yes No May be
06. What is the travel time from your boarding or home to the university?
0-15mins 15-30mins 30mins-1hour 1hour-2hours
More than 2 hours
07. What is the average cost per trip to the university (Rs)?
0 0-10 10-20 20-30 more than 30
08. Do you use university bus service?
Yes No
If yes, the destination of the bus
Panadura Kottawa Bambalapitiya
09. Are you involved with other trip purposes in weekends?
Yes No
If yes what is the purpose of your trip?
Educational Business Work Other
10. What are the cities you have to travel for those trip purposes?
……………………………………………………………………………………………..
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8. CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Nature of the problem
A student staying in boarding houses is a common factor in the University of Moratuwa or in any
other university is Sri Lanka. Lack of proper transportation planning and the considerable
distance from university to home can be two main reasons for this. It is important to know the
problems of the students regarding transportation to and from the university in order to provide
sufficient and efficient transportation methods and facilitate the student community of the
University of Moratuwa.
Some of the students in the student community are from distanced and rural areas and they are
accommodated in boarding houses or the university hostel. And some of the students are from
zones nearby and still stay in boarding houses due to various reasons. And the students involve
in many external activities and they travel to various places including homes and other education
institutes to regarding transportation.
1.2 Demographic Information
This study is carried out with the data collected from the students of the University of Moratuwa
which is situated in the Western Province, one of the nine administrative provinces of Sri Lanka
(Map-1). The Western Province is sub-divided into three districts namely Colombo, Gampaha
and Kalutara. And the University of Moratuwa is situated in the Colombo district (Map-2). The
University of Moratuwa is situated in the Mount Lavinia and Kottawa road between Piliyandala
and Katubedda. With the approximate distance of 1km to the Galle road the accessibility to the
University has increased.
The student population of the University of Moratuwa is approximately 8000 and it contains
students from all around the country. Some of the students have accommodation in the university
hostel. And some of the students stay in boarding houses around the university while the rest stay
in their homes.
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9. Map 1 Map 2
1.3 Transportation
The road system of the country is classified into 5 classes from class ‘A’ to ‘E’. The University
of Moratuwa is located near the Galle road which is an ‘A’ class road. This connects the southern
areas of the country and Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, straight to the university.
This has increased the accessibility to the university. The 255 bus route connects the university
to the Galle road and to Kottawa. This links up the Sabaragamuwa Province. Public transport
methods are provided by the government and private sectors in this region. And the nearest
railway station would be Motatuwa railway station while Fort railway station is located in
approximately 20km.
1.4 Procedure of the Raw Data collection
A questionnaire was distributed randomly among the university students with a sample size of
100. The method of distribution was random. At the end we have collected data samples as
follows. The higher proportion of students was from engineering faculty. The survey forms had
been distributed among levels at a closer ratio.
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10. NDT 35
Architec 6% 30
ture
27% 25
Engineering
20
IT
15
Engineer Architecture
ing 10
NDT
56% 5
IT 0
11%
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
1.5 Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is to understand the travel characteristics of
the students of University of Moratuwa and be aware of their needs regarding transportation.
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11. 1.6 Analysis Sheet
02) Eng Archi IT NDT Comments
56 27 11 6 The majority of students are from
engineering faculty
03) 1 2 3 4 5
25 25 16 30 3
04) Boarding Home Other
78 22 78% of UOM students are boarded
4.1.1 Colombo Outstation
19 3 majority of non boarded are from
Colombo district
4.1.2 Private Bus Train By foot
6 16 0 students coming from home use bus as
their main mode of transport
4.1.3 225 100 101 138 Other
13 5 1 2 7 higher percentage use 225 buses to come
to university
4.2.1 1 2 3 4 5
4.2.2 1 2 3
39 12 26 larger proportion of students who are
boarded visit their homes weekly
private
4.2.3 vehicle public transport
bus train
3 58 20 The main mode of transport to go home
for boarded students is bus
4.2.5 Mount Fort Moratuwa
2 14 7 Higher percentage of students have
preferred Fort station to get into train
5 yes no may be
48 32 18 Larger portion of students are satisfied
with their mode of transport
6 1 2 3 4 5
58 19 13 7 1 overall travel time per a student is in a
lower range
7 1 2 3 4 5
46 17 7 14 15 overall average cost is at a lower range
8 1 2
11 89 11% of university students use the
university bus service
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12. 8.1 1 2 3
3 6 4 larger number of students use the
Kottawa bus
9 1 2
42 55 higher percentage of students does not
involve in other trip purposes
9.1 1 2 3 4
21 3 0 20 highest percentage involve in educational
trip purposes at weekends
col 4 and col
10 3 Nugegoda Mt.Lavinia Moratuwa Piliyandala
bambalapitiya Kollupitiya and Nugegoda
12 5 2 1 1 are
the main cities for those trip purposes
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13. CHAPTER 2
Analysis about Non Boarded Students
2.1 The distribution of university students who come from home
Zone A: 10
Zone C,32% Zone A,45% Zone A
Zone B Zone B: 5
Zone B,23%
Zone C Zone C: 7
We can observe that a large proportion of students come to university are from zone A. And we
can clearly see that about 78% of students have their travel routes along the Galle road. But the
buses in ‘255’ route have at least 15 minutes time gap between the buses. So a larger number of
students have to suffer because the mobility to Galle road is very less. And the above 23% of
Zone B have to take at least 2 buses to complete their journey because the direct buses for that
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14. area are very low. And we can observe from the chart below that even though Moratuwa station
is the closest train station majority of students have selected the Fort station to go home.
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Mt.lavinia Fort Moratuwa
Because of these reasons we can suggest that a proper bus system would minimize the time loss
and additional cost in above scenarios. That system should include
1. Dedicated bus service to the Moratuwa station
2. A bus service to Panadura from Piliyandala
3. Increase in the number of buses deployed in ‘255’ route
4. Increase in the quality of the bus service
5. Proper road development
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15. 2.2 The percentage of students comes from home
Among the 22 students who come from home to university in our survey 16 use public transport
and 6 use their private vehicles.
Private
vehicle, 6 Private vehicle
Public Public transport
transport,
16
We observed a 100% satisfaction about the transport mode of among the private vehicle users.
But the larger percentage of students who use public transport has not satisfied according to our
survey.
This has happened because of several reasons.
1. Largely crowded buses
2. Higher waiting time for buses
3. The poor quality of roads
10 If we observe the graph below we can
9 see a clear majority of Level 4 people.
8 As per our calculations approximately
7 50% of level 4 students come to
6 university by their private vehicle.
5 Most probably it would be a Motor
4 cycle. So probability to come across an
3 accident for a Level 4 student is very
2 high.
1
0
level1 level2 level3 level4 level5
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16. 2.3 Average Travel Time from Home to the University
Some of the students who participated in the survey come to the university from home. Average
travel time was asked from each of the students through question 6.
6. What is the travel time from your boarding place or home to the university?
0-15 15-30 mins 30 mins- 1 hour 1 hour-2hours More than 2 hours
mins
Level 1 0 7 10 5 0
Level 2 0 6 10 5 0
Level 3 0 6 10 5 0
Level 4 0 6 10 5 0
Average 0 6.25 10 5 0
The following graph shows the average travel time of the university students overall.
Average Travel Time
10
8
Average
6
4
2
0
0-15 15-30 30-1hr 1hr-2hr >2hr
Time Range
From the above chart it is shown that the travel time of the students of all levels are almost the
same. In the above graph, overall average travel time is considered. Among the students who
come from home there are non who take more than 2 hours or less than 15 minutes of travel time
to reach the university. The highest number of students is in the range of 30 minutes – 1 hour.
The number of students who take 15 minutes – 30 minutes and 30 minutes – 1 hour, are
approximately the same.
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17. CHAPTER 3
Analysis about Boarded Students
3.1 Students stay in boarding places.
In this survey we have mainly focused on the undergraduate students. So there are mainly four
levels concerned about, and we have identified different behaviors of students regarding
boarding in each level. But on top of that we have identified the overall percentage of students
who use boarding places.
Total number of students in the sample – 100.
Total number of students uses boarding places – 78.
Percentage of boarding place usage (Regardless of level) – 78%.
Home
22% Home
Boarding
place
Boarding
place
78%
By looking at the above percentage we can clearly see that a large number of student (More than
75%) uses boarding places. As for this behavior the reason is there are students from every part
of the country, and for them travelling day to day from their homes is impossible. Even for some
percentage of students, even though they have their homes under a reachable distance they have
chosen the boarding places to live by considering the time taken, cost of travelling and easiness.
To help this decision further the availability of boarding places around the university and
feasibility of accessing other facilities (Mainly food, stationary, internet facilities, etc) have
played a main roll.
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18. 10%
distance to
boarding place
<1000m
90% distance to
boarding place
1000m<
By analyzing further we recognized that 89.74% of the students (70 students out of 78) have
their boarding places within a distance of 1km. For all of them it only takes less than 15 minutes
to reach to their boarding places from university. So they don’t need any specific mode of
transport for their daily purposes. For the other 10.26% they have to use some sort of a transport
mode. The common and most available mode they use is busses.
 Percentages regarding the levels.
Here are the percentages of students who use boarding places grouped by their academic level of
studies.
 Level 1 – 80% (20 out of 25 students in the sample.)
 Level 2 – 72% (18 out of 25 students in the sample.)
 Level 3 – 76% (13 out of 17 students in the sample.)
 Level 4 – 80% (24 out of 30 students in the sample.)
 Level 5 - 100 %( all three in the sample.)
120
100
80
60 precentage of
40 students use
20 boarding places
0
Level Level Level Level Level
1 2 3 4 5
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19. By analyzing the above data we can see that level-1 and level-4 students mostly tend to stay in
the boarding places. For level-1 students there is a high competition among them as they are
divided to their fields (for MPR students who represent a high percentage of the sample.) they
prefer boarding places as they can save their time and focus more on studies. Another reason
behind this behavior is university provides hostel facilities for mainly students from these two
levels. Since this survey is done during a time period where level-3 students are not gone for
their industrial trainings even level-3 percentage is higher than level-2 percentage of usage of
boarding places.
Suggestions
 If the transport facilities are developed there will be more number of students going
home.
 If the level of facilities of the boarding places and other requirements developed the
numbers of using them will be higher.
 If university can provide more hostel facilities many will be benefited.
 There will be more demand for boarding places if their fairs are lower than current.
3.2 Frequency of students going home who use boarding places.
When considering students who use boarding places they have unique patterns of going home.
By looking at an overall view we recognized the percentages of them going home weekly,
fortnightly and monthly.
 Weekly – 51.3 %( 40 out of 78 students.)
 Fortnightly – 15.4% (12 out of 78 students.)
 Monthly – 33.3% (26 out of 78 students.)
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20. Frequency of students going home
Monthly Weekly
33%
Fortnightly
Weekly
51% Monthly
Fortnightly
16%
Here we can see that more than 50% of the students who live in boarding places visit their homes
weekly. This can be expected as they don’t have any work during weekends and they are in a
distance where they can go home during a considerable time. Most of them go home Friday after
lectures, stays at their homes on Saturday and return to boarding places on Sunday. The 15.4% of
students who goes home fortnightly have their homes in bit remote areas of island, and transport
facilities are not up to a good level at the same time the costs are considerably high. For every 10
students 3 students only goes home after a month. This is a very high number and this has caused
due mainly due to the distance and other costs of travelling.
By looking at the modes of transport they use to travel home we identified that majority from the
sample under the survey uses public transportation modes. For most of them the mode is buses.
Some students use both busses and trains to go home. They reach to the nearest railway station
from their homes by trains and then take a bus to arrive to their destinations.
Suggestions
 If the transport facilities are developed there will be more number of students going
home weekly.
 If university can arrange the lectures in such a way that less lectures in Friday
evenings there will be more numbers going home weekly.
 If authorities can arrange transport facilities like bus services in weekends and
Monday mornings many students will tend to go home frequently.
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21. 3.3 The traffic flow in train routes and analysis regarding preferred train station to go
home
According to our survey 25.64% of boarded students use trains to visit their homes so
approximately about 20% of all student population use trains.
Train
20%
Train
Other
Other
80%
When they visit homes there are three main specific ways. They can choose Fort, Mount lavinia
or Moratuwa stations to get into the train. According to our survey a high percentage, 60.86%
have chosen the Fort station. There may be several reasons for that choice.
01. All the train journeys start from Fort.
02. Accessibility to all train lines via the Fort station.
03. The only possible way for a student to get a express train to a destination away from
Polgahawela is by choosing the Fort station
About 30.43% of boarded student population use Moratuwa station but only 8.69% use the
Mount Lavinia station. The reason for this difference is that the Mount Lavinia station is located
roughly 700 meters away from Galle road and the express trains do not stop in Mount Lavinia
station.
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22. Mount
Lavinia
9%
Fort
Moratuwa Moratuwa
30%
Mount Lavinia
Fort
61%
The location of Moratuwa station is the main reason for students to choose that as the second
choice.
According to this chart we can realize that the students can travel at a lower cost via Mount
Lavinia station. Because of this reason implementation of a university bus service to Mount
Lavinia station would increase the utility level of students.
To fort Bus fair (Rs) Train fair(Rs) Total(Rs)
Through Moratuwa 09 20 29
station
Through Mount Lavinia 12 15 27
station
Using bus only 31 - 31
If the railway department can take some measures to stop express trains at Moratuwa and Mount
Lavinia that would be convenient to the students.
other
18%
main
line
82%
It is clear that 82.14% of students use the main line (Fort-Kandy).
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23. About 34.78% of that percentage shows intra movements via main line. About 65.21% shows
transit movements via main line.
35% intra
movement
transit
65% movement
Nearly 34.87% of those populations use the Northern railway route and 17.85% use the southern
railway route. Therefore according to our survey we can comprehend that there is a larger traffic
flow in the main line which is from Fort to Kandy.
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24. CHAPTER 4
Overall Analysis
4.1 Mode of Transport
First we think about students coming from home
We can see they use two transport modes. They are bus and private vehicle
foot private
Private vehicles Bus foot 0% vehicle
s
6 16 0 27%
bus
73%
Most of the students use private vehicles spend more than Rs30 as their travel cost per a day. But
most of the student use buses don’t pay more than 30 Rs per a day as their travel cost.
less than 30 more than 30
private vehicles 2 4
buses 10 3
private
vehicle
bus
cost>30 23% cost>30
33% cost<30 cost<30
67% 77%
We can analyze that using buses are always cheaper than using private vehicles. We have also
analyzed about the cost. Let’s find out of the travel time.
0-15 min 15-30 min. 30-60 min. 60-120 120<
private 0 4 2 0 0
vehicles
buses 0 3 8 5 0
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25. 15-30 0-15 15-30
private vehicles 60-120 buses
min. min min.
min 0%
33% 19%
31%
0-15
30-60
min
min.
67%
50%
According to our survey it seems that many students using private vehicles spend 0-15 minutes
to arrive to the university while most of the others spend 30-60 minutes to arrive to the
university. It means they have saved their time. So sometimes they would think their time is
very important.
The satisfaction is very important in everywhere. Here also it is very important. Let’s see
difference of satisfaction in these modes of transport.
satisfy no may be
private vehicle 6 0 0
bus 4 9 3
may be bus
satisfied
19%
25%
satisfied
no
no may be
56%
We can see 56% students using buses as their transport mode do not satisfied about their mode of
transport. Only 25% students satisfy of it. But we see that all of the students using private
vehicles satisfy about their mode of transport. It shows that using private vehicle is more
comfortable than using buses. That is why these students use private vehicles without caring of
the cost.
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26. Then we analyze about the students staying at boarding places. Let’s see their travel cost per a
day.
Rs.0-10 Rs. 10-20 Rs. 20-30 more
than Rs
30
45 17 6 2 4
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Then it seems that most of the students don’t spend even a single coin as their transport cost. It
means they have found their boarding places near the university. So it says that they also
consider of their convenient of their transport..
Then let’s see how they travel.
private vehicle bus train
3 54 21
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27. prvate vehicle
train 4%
27%
bus
69%
We know that most of the students staying at boarding places live in far away areas. So if
they use private vehicles to go their homes, they have to spend a huge amount of money as their
travel cost. That must be the reason only 4% students use private vehicle to go home. Then we
can see that 70% student’s use buses, 27% students use trains. We know that there are only few
railways in Sri Lanka and they do not spread all over the country. So some student cannot use
trains to visit their homes. That should be the reason for most of students to use buses. Let’s see
the satisfaction of these modes.
satisfy no may be
private vehicle 2 0 1
bus 22 17 14
train 14 5 2
may train bus
private vehicle be
9%
may may
be be
no satisfy
33% 26%
24% 42%
satisf satisf
y y no
no 67% 67% 32%
0%
Here also we can see nobody in the group of students using private vehicles do not satisfy of
their transport mode. Though there are many students using other modes most of them do not
satisfy about their mode of transport. One reason for that is that the buses and trains are very
crowded. Other fact is that trains always get late. So passengers have to waste their time. Buses
always stop everywhere and load them. Not only that they always have to face traffic jams. So
buses also do not arrive to their destination at the allocated time. This should be the reason to
have a minimum satisfaction for buses. But it seems that satisfaction of student using trains is
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28. better than the satisfaction of students using buses. Because when they use train they can prevent
from facing traffic jams.
4.2 Average cost for come to university
From our survey we can know that average cost for come to the university to the students who
come from home is higher than the students who come from boarding place. From the survey we
can get that average cost for the students who come from home
Above 30 – 45%
20 to 30 – 50%
0 to 10 – 5%
And 10 to 20 & 0 – 0%
Therefore most of the student’s average cost is high
10 to 20 0 0 to 10
0% 0% 5% No of Students
0 15
no of
0 to 10
students 10
above 30
10 to 20 5
45% 20 to 30
20 to 30 0 no of students
50%
above 30 0 0 to 10 to 20 to above
10 20 30 30
cost
And also when we take the average cost for come to the university to the students who come
from boarding place
0 – 59%
0 to 10 – 22%
10 to 20 – 9%
20 to 30 - 2%
Above 30 – 8 %
Therefore most of the student’s average cost is law.
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29. 20 to 30
2%
above
30
No of Students
50
10 to 8% 0
20 no of 40
9% 0 to 10 students 30
20
0 10 to 20
0 to 10 10
22% 59% 20 to 30 no of
0 students
above 30 0 0 to 10 10 to 20 to above
20 30 30
cost
These details show that students who come from home their average cost for travelling is high,
because they come from different places. 95% of the students are living little far from the
university. And also they use different modes of transport like private vehicles and public
transport modes.
But students who come from boarding places their average cost for travelling is law. 59% of the
student’s cost for travelling to university is (0) and 22% of the student’s travelling cost is (0 to
10). This detail shows most of the students are staying near the university.
There is a bus service for university students from some parts of Colombo to university, but that
is not proper. Some students only get the use of it. If there is proper university bus service to all
parts of Colombo district, then there is a chance to reduce the transport cost of students. And also
government can give the special offers to university students for the transport. In other hand
students who come from home they can stay in boarding places that are near the university. It
may reduce the transport cost of the students.
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30. 4.3 University Bus Service
University
Students
Coming from their Coming from
homes bording places
22% 78%
Use other public Students use other
Use university bus Use private Use university bus
transpor transport
service vechicals service
services(Bus) modes(by foot)
8% 5% 9% 3% 75%
11% from university students use university bus service to come to university. From these students 73%
comes from their homes and 27% come from boarding places. Almost every boarding place is near to the
university. So we can assume that students from boarding places use university bus service to travel short
distances. So this service is very useful for students from their homes than students from boarding places.
But when we consider students who come from their homes, only 36% use university bus service, 23%
use private vehicles, 41% use other public transport services (Bus).
So totally 64% who could use university bus service (14% from total university students) prefer other
transport services.
This low usage rate cause due to several reasons,
 Lots of students leave university between 4.30.p.m to 5.30.p.m. So these students can’t catch the
bus.
 Students prefer private vehicles mainly because of the comfort. Because of the heavy crowd in
the buses it’s uncomfortable to in them.
 It’s almost 8.a.m when university buses arrive to the university so students have to rush to their
lectures.
 Due to traffic situations in Gale road buses get late.
 Nearly 14% students who come from their homes come from Nugegoda area. Though they don’t
have university bus service there
 Students who are waiting near by the university bus’ routes are willing to take the university bus.
But they can’t get into the bus because of the heavy crowd.
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31. Usage rate in each bus service
Panadura 27.0%
Kottawa 36.5%
Bambalapitiya 36.5%
Good
Bad
Panadura Kottawa Bambalapitiya
This satisfaction levels mainly differ by the amount of passengers in each route. Because of the
overly crowded conditions students who use Bambalapitiya are not satisfied about their bus
service.
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32. 4.4 Other trip purposes
The university students involve in other external activities. University activities are normally
carried out throughout the week. Therefore student’s other trip purposes were taken into
consideration. Data corresponding to other trip purposes were collected through question 9 ad 10
in the questionnaire.
9. Are you involved in other trips in the weekends? If so, what is the purpose of your trip?
10. What are the cities that you have to travel for those trip purposes?
External trips undertaken in each level
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Total
No. Of Students (Yes) 12 12 4 12 2 42
No. Of students (No) 13 12 12 17 1 55
From a total of 97 random university students, 42 students undertake other trips in weekends.
The overall percentage of the students who are involved in other trip purposes
The percentage of the students who are involved in other trips purposes in each level
Level 1 : 48.000%
Level 2 : 50.000%
Level 3 : 25.000%
Level 4 : 41.379%
Level 5 : 66.667%
The following graph displays the percentages of students who involve in other trip
purposes according to their levels.
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33. Percentages of other trips by levels
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50
Percentages
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30
20
10
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1 2 3 4
Level
Out of all the students who were taken to this survey level 1 and 2 students show higher
percentage students who are involved in other trip purposes, while level 3 students show the
lowest percentage out of the 4 levels.
Due to insufficient number of students were surveyed from level 5, considering percentages can
be misleading.
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34. 4.5 Educational trip purposes
Among the students who undertake trips other than to or from the university, some students
undertake educational trips. Overall percentages are considered below.
The percentage of the students who undertake educational trips.
Percentage =
= 47.727%
Trip Purposes
Other
47.73%
Education
52.27%
The percentages of educational trips in each level.
Level 1 = 20.000%
Level 2 = 24.000%
Level 3 = 17.647%
Level 4 = 16.667%
The following graph shows the percentages of educational trips in each level.
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35. Educational Trip Purposes
30.00%
Percentage 25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
level 1 level 2 level 3 level 4
Level
From the above graph it is clear that in level 2, a high number of students are involved in
external educational trips. And towards the end years of the university the percentage has
gradually dropped. The level 1 percentage is less than the level 2 percentage.
4.6 Analysis about the destinations of other trip purposes
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12
10
8
6
4
2
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col 4 and col 3 Nugegoda Mt.Lavinia Moratuwa Piliyandala
According to the graph above we have found that students go to Bambalapitiya Kollupitiya areas
for their trip purposes. The reason behind that most of the educational institutes is located in
these areas. The data we collected shows about 21% of students indulge in educational trip
purposes at weekends. The map below explains how their travel desire lines are.
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36. Travel desire lines
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37. Chapter 5
Conclusion
According to our survey we have found several issues students are facing in their day to day
transport activities.
The data collection reveals that a higher percentage of student populations who come from home
are in the Nugegoda region but there isn’t a straight bus service to fulfill the transport demand of
those students from the university.
About 78% of students are boarded but approximately 10% of them haven’t been able to find a
boarding place in the radius of 1 km. Because of that reason implementation of a boarding
complex near the university premises would be a worthy idea.
As shown in the chapter 3 the most economical way to go to Fort station from university is
through the Mount Lavinia station. A bus service from university to Mount Lavinia station
would make the mobility levels of students higher and the transport cost lower.
The university bus service to Bambalapitiya is heavily crowded that higher percentage of them
who use that bus service is unsatisfied about their mode of transport. If it is possible to increase
the university buses deployed to that area it would certainly raise the convenience levels of the
students.
A larger proportion of university students visit their homes at weekends. About 30% of them use
train as their mode of transport. Even though the closest train station is Moratuwa station the
percentage use that station is very low considering the amount goes to Fort station. The mobility
to reach the Moratuwa station is very low because students have to take two buses to arrive at the
Moratuwa station. The students from Moratuwa Panadura area show low satisfaction levels
because of the deficiency of a direct bus service to that area.
These are the main issues discovered by us in this survey. The only positive thing we came
across is that the larger population in the community of students of University of Moratuwa is
satisfied with their mode of transport.
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38. Appendix
As an optional thing to the survey we were instructed to analyze travel patterns of students in
university of Moratuwa.
According to the data we have collected from that we found several trip patterns of students
Educational trips
16
14
12
number of trips
10
8
6
4
2
0
As we can observe in the graph above the educational trips of students are constant during the
weekdays while considering Saturday and Sunday larger amount involve in Educational trip
purposes on Saturday.
Recreational trips
4.5
4
3.5
Number of trips
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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39. As shown in the above graph students involve in more recreational trips in weekends.
Social Trips
7
6
Number of students
5
4
3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The larger population of student’s community of university of Moratuwa involves in social trips
on Friday. The reason behind that is a larger amount of boarded students visit their homes on
Friday.
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