Abstract
Congestion can be recognized through roads filled with cars, trucks, buses and sidewalks filled with pedestrians. It usually relates to an excess of vehicles at a particular time resulting in lower speeds, sometimes much slower than normal speeds. Public transportation is a vital element in solving the congestion problem in the city. In Indonesia, currently, safe and convenient transportation modes to move from one point to another still rarely found. Therefore, the growth rate of personal vehicles soaring from year to year. Therefore, in this research a set of simulation models have been developed to mitigate congestion through the improvement of public transportation. As a method used to develop the model, system dynamics is utilized based on consideration that the method can accommodate nonlinear relationships between factors that have significant contribution to mitigate the traffic congestion. Research results show that the improvement of public transportation through comfort, safety, reliability and affordable cost can mitigate the traffic congestion.
Highlights
Transportation has an important role in supporting economic development and social development for the welfare of society [1]
In developing system dynamics model, system understanding is required as the basic building block for the model development
While external factors are influenced by several factors such as traffic incidents, exclusive lanes, work zones and special events
Summary
Transportation has an important role in supporting economic development and social development for the welfare of society [1]. Public transport that exists today, some of its forms are less feasible and less secure, the fleet of trains is still minimum so crowded and often there is interference. Based on this condition, a transportation revolution in Indonesia is required. The existence of easy, safe and convenient public transportation is very important to congestion mitigation, and to reduce fuel consumption, as well as to improve the efficiency in mobility. In this research, a system dynamics simulation model has been utilized to mitigate traffic congestion as a solution to transportation management in urban area
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