  General Santos City, as the tuna capital of the Philippines, relies with the
presence of tricycles in moving people and goods. Considered as a
highly-urbanized city, General Santos City serves as vital link of the entire
SOCKSARGEN region's economic activities. With the current thrust of the city in
providing a sustainable transport service, several options were identified to
adopt in the entire city, that includes cleaner and better transport mode.
Electric tricycle is an after sought alternative that offers better choice in
terms of identified factors of sustainable transport: reliability, safety,
comfort, environment, affordability, and facility. A literature review was
conducted to provide a comparison of cost and emission between a motorized
tricycle and an e-tricycle. The study identified the existing tricycle industry
of the city and reviewed the modal share with the city's travel pattern. The
survey revealed a number of hazards were with the current motorized tricycle
that needs to address for the welfare of the passengers and drivers. The study
favors the shift to adopting E-tricycle. The model derived from binary
logistics regression provided a 72.72% model accuracy. Based from the results
and findings, electric tricycle can be an alternative mode of public transport
in the city that highly support sustainable option that provides local populace
to improve their quality of life through mobility and economic activity.
Further recommendation to local policy makers in the transport sector of the
city include the clustering of barangays for better traffic management and
franchise regulation, the inclusion of transport-related infrastructure related
to tricycle service with their investment planning and programming, the roll
out and implementation of tricycle code of the city, and the piloting activity
of introducing e-tricycle in the city.
