Factors affecting junior high school students’ bike to school in Surakarta

Abstract

Cycling to school is a Surakarta City government program to reduce the use of motorbikes by students. The development of facilities for cyclists by the City of Surakarta is still limited to certain areas. On the other hand, the traffic conditions when going to school and coming home from school are problems and considerations for students to cycle to school. This paper will examine the factors that influence junior high school students to cycle to school in Surakarta using the ANP (Analytic Network Process) method. There are four main factors and 16 sub-factors of each of the main factors used in this paper. The main factors are behaviour, physical condition, social conditions, and environmental conditions. The results of the study that the environmental conditions are the greatest factor students cycling to school. When reviewed as a whole, these factors are calculated simultaneously, and found the five most influential factors. The five factors are bike ownership, health, parent’s salary, gender and no cycling friends.