STUDY OF TRANSPORTATION MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR OF LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES IN BANDUNG CITY PERI – URBAN AREA (CASE STUDY: URBAN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT AREA IN UJUNG BERUNG DISTRICT)

• Main Author: Haidar, Muhammad
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Komunitas
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/70521
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Bandung City is one of Indonesian cities that has severe problem in transportation aspect, which also has notable poverty problem at the same time, especially in its peri-urban areas. Theoretically, combination of these two problems can exacerbate the inadequacy problem of accessibility to opportunities, public services, and social interactions. This phenomenon oftenly be viewed as an unending dilemma for low-income community, who critically need those certain things of accesibilities. Limited financial capability encourages low-income community to further minimize their daily transportation expenses, but at the same time they are also required to maintain their survival as a part of society. Thus, this study aims to identify the movement behavior of low-income communities in the peri-urban area of Bandung City, with Ujung Berung District informal settlement area are used as a case study. This research was conducted using a quantitative descriptive approach, which utilizes descriptive, inferential, and non-experimental associative statistical analysis methods, accompanied by spatial analysis methods, such as kernel density and network analysis. The results of various analyzes that carried out show that low-income community in Bandung City peri - urban area have a tendency to make movements with shorter distances (to Ujung Berung Alun-Alun Area), minimize trip chains, make movements with a higher frequency and clear objectives, and also have a higher tendency to use public transportation and NMT. Those behavior can be understood as a logical consequence of their radical desire to reduce their daily transportation expenses. On the other hand, several behavior patterns of low-income community transportation movements were also found to be significantly differentiated between socio-economic groups among themselves.