Analysis of influencing factors on using rental bikes at shopping tourism sites in Surakarta

Erlin Setyowati,Syafi’i Syafi’I,Dewi Handayani,P Hajek,W.T Chan,R Sriravindrarajah,M.B Ismail,B.A Hidayat,S Kristiawan,A.L Han,B.S Gan

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201819504014

Abstract

Surakarta as a tourism city has launched green transportation as a program in the government policy. Bikes as a supporting mode of green transportation has not gotten much attention from users, including tourism sites. Therefore, the aim of this study is to obtain the factors which influence the use of tourism bikes in Surakarta in the form of rental bikes. The location of the study was at several shopping tourism sites in Surakarta, namely Pasar Gede, Pusat Grosir Solo, Beteng Trade Center, and Pasar Klewer. The data was collected using a questionnaire with an interview method to the respondents of the visitors of the shopping sites and analyzed with the PCA (Principal Component Analysis) method. The result of the research showed that the weather condition, air pollution, bike track topography, and distance were the main factors which influenced people to use rental bikes in tourism sites of Surakarta.

Highlights

Increasing the number of motor vehicles makes many impacts, such as traffic jam, high air pollution, environmental pollution, fuel waste of vehicles, etc
This study is to research the aspect where there are environmental conditions consisting of weather, air pollution conditions, bike topography, mileage, bike lane capacity, separator with other modes [9]
The results of the data obtained are four new variables that determine the factors that affect the influence of tourists using bicycle rental in shopping in Surakarta

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Introduction

Increasing the number of motor vehicles makes many impacts, such as traffic jam, high air pollution, environmental pollution, fuel waste of vehicles, etc. One of the government's efforts to overcome this problem, especially in Surakarta City as a tourist city, is to design a system called green transportation, which is a transportation system that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, noise, and reduce poverty and support economic growth [1]. In this case, Pasar Gede, a shopping place in Surakarta, has characteristics that present a sense of place from the symbiosis of relationships between physical places, actors and livelihoods [2].

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