Observation

In this project my teacher assign every group to make at least two research methodology, thus our group doing the observation for the second research.

As almost all of our group members use the public transport every day, we think that observation is a useful idea to get more reason why people not moving in in the bus. We plan to observe the public transport everyday especially the bus which are our usual transport to school, we are observing for the bus condition in different timing such as normal business hour and the peak hour. We are looking for how people react if they see people not moving in in the bus, which can be their expression or action.

Based on our observation, the amount of people who not moving in in the bus during the peak hour is more than the normal business hour time, when they are all normally busy going to work or rushing to work. On the peak hour, as the people are rushing to work or tiringly going home after work, several of them will just stand all the way where they would like to stand and not thinking or care about the others. Next, people mostly not moving in because they have a lot of things to carry or a heavy thing, they will remain standing near the entrance door or the exit door with their carrier. For another reason, people are standing together with their friends in the path way that blocks the way to the back of the bus as they will stay together all the way until they reach their destination bus stop.

In the other hand, based on our observation, there are some different reaction when they see people blocking the way to the back of the bus. First, the most reaction is nothing, as they will just remain standing in the place and not doing anything. Another one, they will just squeezing in to the back of the bus without scolding the people who blocks the way. The other one, they will feel annoyed as they cannot enter the bus because the front part of the bus is too crowded and the back side of the bus still have some space to stand.

For the bus driver, they have their own different reaction, we have seen them scolding and shouting, telling nicely, feeling annoyed, angry, or even do nothing to the people, another bus driver will then drive fast and roughly as he feel angry.

In conclusion, again from this research, we found out that people wants other people to move in but they do not want to take action like asking them to move in. Thus, we are thinking of changing the bus design for the solution to make the people move by themselves.