Vol. 10 No. 1 (1999)

Economic crisis has created negative effects on users, owners, and drivers of urban public transit system. To analyze the impacts, a study was conducted for urban public transit system in Bandung. Respondents were asked various questions related to travel and other expences before and after the crisis. The results showed how the low income users were affected the most. They were captive users and had to sacrifice their meal expenses for transportation costs. The public transit

Using three different proposals made for Jakarta during 1988-1992 as a ase study, this work investigates the formulation of mass transit system proposals in Jakarta with the objectives of comparing alternative transportation demand modelling methods, assessing their strengths and weaknessess and recommending the most suitable ones to be adapted. The results indicate that, in the general context of developing countries and for pre-feasibility level, simple methods and models still seem more appropriate due to the lack of reliable data and expertise, fast changing developments and high…

The monetary crisis which occurs in our country very recently affected that the conventional approach for solving the urban transportation problem in DKI Jakarta can no longer be used for the near future. The paper will discuss in detail the Transport Demand Management concept, which is hoped to replace the conventional approach to solve the urban transportation problem in DKI Jakarta.

When we were still enjoying economic growth, it was already not that easy to plan an investment policy in transport and to manage the urban transport system, because at that time we already had a big problem, i.e. lack of government budget for handling the large scale demand and complex national transportation problem. Private sector participation started to be widely offered at that time, and up to now the atmosphere is still being improved. Suddenly, we face an economic flu or

The rural road is expected to alleviate the rural poverty in IDT (presidential Decree for Undeveloped Village) programme. Although this programme is still running during the economic crisis (namely Social Safety Net Programme) there are some questions of the effectiveness of the programme. Rural road development and rural transportation system should be designed well to meet this objective. What is necessary is an understanding of the interaction of rural roads, transportation modes and socio-economic factor of rural development. Even the uses of participatory planning programe in deciding…

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