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ses are introduced, which increased the frequency of buses across the Klang Valley. As at 31 December 2011, up to 4.04 million more passengers used the RapidKL bus service in comparison to the preceding year. Recently, the coordinator of the working group on public transportation in Malaysia, Mr. A. Sivarajan urged the government to re-evaluate national public transport policy in order to provide a more effective and efficient system to consumers (Bernama, October 25, 2012). There are several main problem identified by the working group such as the concentration of bus service within Kuala Lumpur, the unsafe locations of bus stops, the non-passing of bus at certain bus stops area and poor network connectivity.

The statements mentioned in above convinced the researcher about the need to analyse the government public transportation policy. Based on the assumption that the public transportation policy is vague and implicit to the other states and cities, there is a need to critically assess the policy in the context of public bus transportation in Kota Kinabalu. In trying to critically the policy, it is equally important to analyse the issue in public bus transportation and to discuss the perception of the stakeholder on government public transportation policy

Research Objectives

To analyse the public transportation policy in regards to public bus in Kota Kinabalu。

To analyse the public transportation policy at federal, state and local government level。

To identify the perception of main stakeholders regarding government policy and public bus improvement in Kota Kinabalu。

To analyse issues associate with public transportation。

To suggest several recommendations for future policy planning purpose.

Research Questions

In respond to the listed objectives, several questions had been formulated and will be answered through the research. The questions that take into account are:

What are the government policies regarding public transportation in Kota Kinabalu?

What is the position of bus in public transportation policy?

How developed public bus transportation in Kota Kinabalu resulted from the policies?

How the stakeholders perceived public transportation policies in regards to public bus transportation in Kota Kinabalu?

Scope of Study

This study will be conducted in Kota Kinabalu. The focus is to analyse the government policy towards public bus transportation in Kota Kinabalu. For the purpose of policy analysis, it will cover the period from 1990 to 2012. Data will be collected through historical and interviews method. The respondents of this study will be the representative from government and other authoritative bodies such Kota Kinabalu City Hall (KKCH), Road Transport Departments, Commercial Licensing Vehicle Board (CLVB), and private bus-operators as well as public bus users. This study would be conducted from February 2012 to June 2013.

Limitation of Study

The first limitation of this research is limited accessibility to the desired data. Since historical review method is adopted, the accessibility of some existed data may not be granted. For example the government documents such as budget and policy plan which is perceived consist o