ANALYSIS ON BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ACCESSIBILITY IN JAKARTA

• Main Author: Ayuriany, Tharra
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/56581
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Jakarta Provincial Government promotes public transportation modes and tries to make people leave their private transportations in order to reduce traffic congestion. However, more people still use their private vehicles every year. While public transportation development in Jakarta has been slow, mass transportation integration and the completion of MRT Jakarta could be the turning point. Accessibility is essential to develop good public transportation. Hence, it is a crucial to look into what encourage and discourage people from using public transportation from the social dimension of accessibility. Factors that affect and relate to accessibility, which influence people's decision to choose public transportation, were analyzed and identified, based on individual and transport components for accessibility. The factors answered the primary research question of this paper, 'What are the barriers and opportunities to increase public transportation usage in Jakarta?'. Understanding these will help create a future planning and policy approach that can encourage increase in usage of public transportation. This research used data collection from questionnaires as well as documents from open resources and articles about public transportation modes in Jakarta. These data were processed to find barriers and opportunities to improving accessibility with a qualitative descriptive approach. From the research is founded that barriers in developing a better public transportation came from the inconsistency in developing the infrastructure that would encourage the use of public transportation. However, the opportunities founded is that people have interests in using a good and comfortable public transportation