Transport policy-making and planning Javanese cities
Based on findings of field studies in five Javanese cities in Indonesia, this paper looks at a hierarchy of settlements and investigates what aspects of urban development and the transport sector most influences transport policy-making and planning in the country. The paper highlights the presence of a community hierarchy within these settlements with consonant trip-making patterns and the widespread mis-use of certain transport modes. The paper cross-relates observed transport problems and policy issues diagnosed from the five Javanese cities with an earlier prepared national agenda of urban transport policy issues and problems. This is done with a view to arriving at more sensitive policy and planning responses nationwide for cities of different kinds in Indonesia. The paper commences with an explanation of the settlement hierarchy and community structure employed by Indonesian government planners. An attempt is then made to relate this hierarchy and structure to the five cities studied. Within this context, factors affecting urban transport are discussed and tabulated against the above cities settlement hierarchy. These include aspects of: settlement size, structure and area; settlement development policy, urban for, density and topography; and travel and transport characteristics. An attempt is made to match this settlement hierarchy (and its constituent community structure) with a conceptualized hierarchy of transport modes, simultaneously investigating: the relationship between urban communities and assigned road hierarchies; community-based travel demand and trip-making characteristics; and the relationship between travel, speed and distance. From this an assessment is made of the performance and current use and mis-use of such transport modes.
- Research Organization:
- International Inst. for Energy Conservation, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 414902
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9411246-; ON: DE95015467; TRN: 96:006509-0009
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Transport growth in Bangkok: energy, environment, and traffic congestion, Bangkok (Thailand), 1-2 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1995]; Related Information: Is Part Of Transport growth in Bangkok: Energy, environment, and traffic congestion. Workshop proceedings; Philpott, J. [Asia Regional Office, Bangkok (Thailand)]; PB: 241 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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