STUDY ON THE CHARGING INSTRUMENTS FOR ROAD MAINTENANCE IN WEST JAVA PROVINCE

• Main Author: MARGA OETOMO , SAD
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/12630
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

</i><b>Abstract: <i></b><p align="justify"> Road network maintenance should be well planned and implemented to keep the road network in a good condition and meet the design life. In the current situation, revenue from road transport sector that is allocated for road expenditure is very low, especially for road maintenance. The revenue is collected in a form of tax which the value is percentage of the price of the tax object, in these case is the vehicle, where is not figure out the contribution of the object for the maintenance cost required based on the user benefit and the damages affected by the vehicle. <p align="justify"> Study on charging instrument for road maintenance, including the types, charges, and mechanism is desirable to solve the problem. Charging instrument for road maintenance has been implemented widely in many countries and known as Road Fund. The fund is administered by road's stakeholder to assure that the collected charges will be allocated to the road sector. <p align="justify"> The first thing to be prepared is the annual maintenance expenditure required as this will affect the charge based on the cost recovery system. The maintenance cost is classified by the main components, such as fixed cost and variable cost, intended for a fair distribution. <p align="justify"> Based on the literature study, the selected instruments are vehicle license fee, fuel levy, and heavy vehicle license fee. This study refers to the international practices and experiences and considers some criteria such as are administration characteristic, applicability and simple collecting mechanism. <p align="justify"> The charge per vehicle per kilometer for maintenance expenditure based on some financing scenario increase the Vehicle Oerating Cost (VOC) will affect the increasing of VOC varying from 0.68% to 3.32% for the each vehicle type. <p align="justify"> The suggested collecting mechanism is to use the established existing mechanism to save the time and cost, namely vehicle license fee through the STNK payment, fuel levy through the Pertamina as sole distributor of fuel and heavy vehicle license fee through the car inspection mechanism.</p>