Abstract
Surakarta and Yogyakarta are the emerging cities which now struggle to manage its pollution from transport sector. This study aims to calculate the emission, to describe spatial distribution and to analyze existing co-benefit actions related to land transportation in Surakarta and Yogyakarta in 2015. The main method used for this analysis comes from Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The VKT values were aggregated for Surakarta city and Yogyakarta city and it showed 27.36 km/day, 37.52 km/day and 27.71 km/day for motorcycle, car and truck respectively. At Surakarta city, the emission load from transport sector in 2014 were 449.95 tons/ year (TSP), 5134 ton/ year(NOx), 243 ton/year (SO2), 50,605 ton /year (CO) and 421,594 tons/year (CO2e). Villages of Kemlayan, Timuran and Keprabon showed the highest emission. While in Yogyakarta city in 2014, the burden of TSP was 58,409 tons/year, NOx was 8,058 tons/year, SO2 was 285.37 ton/year, CO was 75,008 tons/year and CO2e by 601,068 tons/year. The village of Pringgokusuman and Sosromeduran showed the highest emission. Several programs were adopted in Yogyakarta city and Surakarta city for mitigating air pollution i.e ITS-ATCS, BRT system, car free day.
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