The Analysis of Public Transportation System in Serang, Banten (original) (raw)

International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The urban public transportation in Indonesia is still bad as it is not reliable, discomfort and insecure. One of the many reasons is because the public transport used is still largely dominated by small-capacity transport. This condition consequently resulted a heavy traffic jam and chaos. This bad public transportation can be found, for instance, in the city of Serang, the province of Banten. However, in the city of Serang, the problems seem to be more associated with a lower carrying capacity and routes. This study aims at examining the conditions of public transportation systems and estimating the performance indicators of public transport in the city of Serang, Province of Banten. Based on the observation, primary data and secondary data, the study found that the performance indicator in this city was quite good especially for the routes 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 and 08. While the routes 07 and 09 were relatively at an average performance. In terms of the indicators of service performance, however, the study found that the speed record for the trip, headway, travel time, frequency and waiting time need to be improved. Due to these findings, this study suggests that the local government needs to empower the public transportation rules and regulation. This is important partly to make the people obey the transportation routes so as to ensure the availability of transport. Also, there is a need to create a bigger and more comfortable vehicles such as bus or Light Rail Transport (LRT) facilities. Thus, much remain to be done by the government of the Serang City, Banten Province. Keyword: public transportation, urban areas, indicator of service performance, transportation routes. I. INTRODUCTION The performance of urban public transportation in Indonesia is still bad and unreliable. The reason is partly because public transport operated is still largely dominated by small-capacity transport. Consequently, this type of transportation vehicles results traffic jam and chaos. This condition is no exception for the urban public transport in the city of Serang, the capital of city of the province of Banten. The population in this capital city can be considered densely populated with the growth rate at average 1.13% per year since 2010. On the basis of the population number, this city was grouped into the category of medium-sized city. This study based on observation and secondary data aims to examine the following two issues. The first is to obtain an overview of the management and the existing public transport system in the city of Serang, the province of Banten. The second is to develop a set of management strategies of public transport in the city of Serang that can provide viable and sustainable services. However, before these two issues are examined, the following section will deal first with the literature review of the ideal concept of the public transportation system in section 2. Section 3 highlights the research methodology. Section 4 analyzed the findings of the study. Finally, concluding remarks is drawn in section 5. II. LITERATURE REVIEW The public transport system is basically formed from a set of hardware which consists of the main infrastructure systems and facilities. Furthermore, both the hardware components are operated with the operating system or software system that consists of components such as frequency and fares (Santoso, 1996). The components of the infrastructure and public transport itself, among others consist of the following. The first is public transport infrastructure components. This includes the network system, terminal, track along the right of way on each route, and stop. The second is public transportation components including type of vehicles used and the dimensions and the design of the vehicle. In many cities, especially in Indonesia, both large and medium cities, have problems on public transport. These problems at least are the following. The first is that there are many communities that still cannot served by public transport. The second is that the travel fares are considered relatively high or expensive. The third is that vehicles used is still discomfort as they are old vehicles. Finally, the security and the safety aspects of trips are not reliable (Department of Transportation, 2007).