Accessibility and Attractiveness of Water Transport Service In order to promote the improvement of water transport service in Bangkok in the sustainable way, it is required to be acquainted with the characteristics of water transport service in term of the accessibility and attractiveness of its service. This study attempted to evaluate the serviceability of its service by proposing the following approach as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 Identification of Accessibility and Attractiveness of Water Transport
The basically scheme to determine the accessibility of water transport service is to analyze the factor which plays a role in encouraging passengers movements in term of utilizing each pier. The present work is based on the hypothesis that urban environment in a function of accessibility that influence on commuters preferences would result to their travel behaviors in term of trip purpose, origindestination, travel time and travel distance (Figure 5). This is due to the different attractiveness of their destination of travel which provides miscellaneous benefits with different type of landscapes elements. By defining attractiveness as one of the measurement of the characteristics of service, this study quantified the intangible values of attractiveness of its service as shown in Figure 6.