Abstract
In an effort to monitor and control the urban freight transport, the Municipal Government of Surakarta City issue a dispensation license for freight vehicles through the inner-city road. Nevertheless, the facts indicate that traffic violations by freight vehicles against the provisions of existing regulations are relatively high and thus have the potential to decrease the level of safety, road service and environmental sustainability. This is due to the weakness of the system of monitoring and the control of urban freight transport is low both in terms of technicality and legality. The research’s aims are to evaluate and improve the current system of monitoring and control of urban freight transport related to the provision of the dispensation license for freight vehicles through the inner-city road in Surakarta City. The analysis results indicate that the percentage of unlicensed urban freight transport is significant in number, and no clarity is associated with licensing dispensation for urban freight transport weighing > 9,000 kg, a significant number of traffic violations, road bearing capacity of freight transport routes do not correspond to the vehicle weight. Various recommendations are proposed for improving the current system of monitoring and of the control of urban freight transport.
Highlights
The growth of urban economy is highly dependent on the reliable supply of goods and commodity logistics
Conditions to be met by urban freight transport, including freight routes based on road class and road bearing capacity, allowed vehicle weight, operating time, loading procedures, parking facilities, loading-unloading and warehousing
Such licensing is granted to freight vehicles that have some certain criteria, such as vehicle carrying goods whose dimensions of size and weight cannot be separated into smaller parts, vehicles whose heavy loads exceed the heaviest axle load limit allowed for the road class, and vehicles containing basic necessities and / or fuel [4]
Summary
The growth of urban economy is highly dependent on the reliable supply of goods and commodity logistics. The facts on the ground show that traffic violations by freight vehicles against the provisions of existing regulations in the Surakarta City are relatively high and results in a potential to decrease the level of safety, road service and environmental sustainability [1] This is due to the weakness of the current system to monitor and control freight transport both in terms of technicality and legality. It is necessary to improve the current system of monitoring and controlling urban freight transport related to the provision of the dispensation license for freight vehicles through the inner-city road in Surakarta City, which contains the determination of route, vehicle weight, operating time and law enforcement
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