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**__INTRODUCTION __** **1.1 Background of the study**  Nowadays, transport is an important thing to everyone.Without that, people will face any problem to move from one places to another places. Thus, the students difficult to attend lecture and to go to other places without transports. When the 2009/2010 started, the university had change regulation for first year students who live in residence college 2. This case will causes them to face transportation problem to attend class everyday.


 * 1.2 Definition of keyterms**

The definition of key terms is **Research** - A detailed and careful study, **UMP students** – Students of Universiti Malaysia Pahang, **Participation** – To take part or become involved and **Transportation**//-// is the movement of people and goods from one location to another and is performed by various modes.


 * 1.3 Research Questions**

To guide us in completing this study, we have outlined three research questions such as do you agree with new regulation that is fixed by UMP? ( New regulation- first year student do not have any transportation except bicycle), what is type of transport that students used? and what is your opinion to find good solution with the transportation problem in UMP?.

** 1.4 Objective of the study **

The current study aims at fulfilling three objectives such as to find out the percentage of UMP students that support the current regulation that are fixed by university, to find out usual type of vehicle used by UMP student and to identify the best solution for transportation problem.