Assessment of Transport Poverty and Its Social-Economic Impacts on Communities (Case of Bekasi Barat, Bekasi City)

Abstract

Transport poverty is a paradigm where such conditions cause limitations in using transportation facilities that affects the marginalized. The poor is most often affected by the lack of vehicles both private and public transportation services in terms of choice and quality of service, thus causing social exclusion and shuts people from economic, social, and political participation due to lack of access to transportation. Transport poverty have bearings on the travel patterns of the affected groups. The study aims to identify and analyze the impact of transport poverty on the travel patterns of affected groups and compare them with unaffected groups. Bekasi City has a vital role as a satellite city of DKI Jakarta which also has high poverty rates and numbers of poor people. Home-based school and work travel pattern are chosen given these trips are the most frequent done in a household. This research method is a deductive method using a mixed method and collecting data using questionnaires, in-depth interviews and observation results. The conclusion of this research is the phenomenon of poverty occurs in Bekasi Barat, Bekasi City, influencing communites travel patterns with indicators of affordability, mobility, and accessibility, as well as having impact on their social exclusion.