Integrating Disaster Mitigation Strategies in Land Use and Transport Plan Interaction

Abstract

Land use and transport interaction (LUTI) plan in a sustainable urban development should achieve the highest expected utility in technical, economic, environmental and social aspects for city long term strategic planning. In fact, congestion and urban sprawl, which contributes to carbon emissions, are the most problems faced by many cities worldwide. For the high-risk cities in disaster-prone area, the strategies selected in a land-use and transport plan should not only deal with the carbon emissions problem but also it should consider the possibility of disaster occurrence. This paper presents an approach of disaster mitigation strategies integration in a land-use transport plan interaction. The approach combines the disaster mitigation with conventional land use and transport strategies in order to achieve the objectives of urban risk reduction and urban transport sustainability. The possible strategies proposed then will be presented in a case study area selected, which is called as Banda Aceh Integrated land use and transport plan (BILT). The BILT approach provide the new insight in land use and transport interaction plan by breaking the trapped within the hard shell of conventional transport strategic, regarding how to make a better long term strategic planning of a high-risk city in minimizing disaster risk and achieve carbon emission reduction simultaneously in the context of urban risk reduction urban transport sustainability.