Secondary City and TOD Concept in the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Development to the Sustainable Transportation

Abstract

Secondary city and several apartment developments in big cities in Indonesia both in secondary city and central city are the government’s effort in anticipating the society explosion in big city and the residence’s space need. But, with the ease access to the big city, it makes the satellite city to be more developed; inhabitant prefers to live in satellite city then works in big city. Those conditions will change the trip pattern and uprising the society movement from satellite city to central city. Suitable to what have said that in the developing country, life style will affecting the mobility, so with the ease of access and lot of private vehicle usage will add the road burden, where the impacts are traffic jam and lot of pollution in independent city and central city surrounding it. This study aims 1) to identify the characteristics and trip pattern of the study area, 2) to analyze the implementation of TOD concept in LRT development in the cities which have satellite city in Indonesia where the case study in Semarang city. Method in this study was performed using descriptive explorative and quantitative by simulating demand potential using TOD concept and after the LRT development. This study concludes that in the cities which have satellite city, TOD concept in LRT development will make a sustainable transportation and by using TOD concept in LRT development will change society life style.