Evaluation of Transemarang Shelters on Diponegoro University Campus Area

Bangun Ir Harsritanto,Agasthia Villianggie,Rona Fika Jamila

doi:10.13189/cea.2020.080411

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Abstract

The Trans buses are efforts to help people to reduce the usage of private personal vehicles and switch into public vehicles rides. Semarang is one of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia as the provincial capital of Central Java, which has had the Bus Rapid Transportation (BRT). The purpose of the research is to evaluate the Transemarang bus shelter on the Diponegoro University area related to the locations, conditions, and user perceptions. Literature and regulation studies were performed to arrange the evaluation sheet; site observation and questionnaire were functioned to evaluate the existing and collect data of user's perceptions. The conditions of Transemarang bus shelters on Diponegoro University area inadequate and not properly installed that bring dissatisfaction from the users. The previous researches were conducted on user satisfaction, policy, and tracking technology. This study was spotted from the architectural view which connecting the physical buildings, human as users, environments design, and universal design principles.

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The first country that operates Bus Rapid Transportation (BRT) is Brazil in 1974 at Curitiba city
The Indonesia government, in this case, the Department of Transportation, which is a related bureau of transportation, push their limits to decrease the level of traffic density by installing public facilities, such: Bus Rapid Transportation (Trans Buses)
The Trans buses is an effort or helping people to reduce the usage of private personal vehicles and switch into public vehicles rides (Irfana, Nugraha, & Awaluddin, 2019)

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The first country that operates Bus Rapid Transportation (BRT) is Brazil in 1974 at Curitiba city. Vast cities and expansive metropolitan in Indonesia are vastly experiencing numerous growth of personal vehicles or private transportation recently. This condition proved to bring high impacts on crowded to chaotic traffic in the urban area, peripheral, and suburban. The Trans buses is an effort or helping people to reduce the usage of private personal vehicles and switch into public vehicles rides (Irfana, Nugraha, & Awaluddin, 2019) Regarding this chaotic situation, not all Indonesia metropolitan city has this Trans Bus. Just several cities like Jakarta, Semarang, Solo, Yogyakarta, Makassar, and Bandung already adopted and operated this BRT System this decade to reduce the significant number of traffic jams in their area (Putri, 2014). Several BRT systems in that city are entering a new competition with the latest transportation system based on online applications (Silalahi, Handayani, & Munajat, 2017)

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