Abstract

As capital of Central Java, Semarang City has high accessibility since it has harbor, airport, and as the main lane of the mobility. The common urban issues felt by the community are traffic, air pollution, and the lack of public facilities for the non-motorize such as pedestrian track. It is necessary for urban managers and planners to conduct necessary planning and analysis for the development of urban transportation system through a strategic perspective. The objective of this article is to determine the process of spatial planning prioritized to achieve a sustainable transportation in Semarang City. This research was qualitative descriptive. Data were analyzed using the Analysis Hierarchy Process Method. The result showed that the planning of sustainable spatial transportation in Semarang City was arranged by some criteria in its planning; economic aspect, environment and the third is social aspect. The planning of sustainable transportation can be done by providing mode of reliable and well integrated mass transportation, the determining of policy of one RTH for one sub-district and providing a City Walk (a free vehicle area) so that the a friendly non-motorize city concept could be created

Highlights

  • Sustainable development issue has become an important issue that needs to be socialized to the community

  • Result showed that the planning of sustainable spatial transportation in Semarang City was arranged by some criteria in its planning; economic aspect, environment and the third is social aspect

  • The initial stage implemented was by comparing the criteria: economy, social and environment so that result of which became the priority in sustainable transportation planning in Semarang City was obtained (Table 3) The first priority was economy aspect with the weight value of 0.432, the second priority was environment aspect with the weight value of 0.323 and the last priority was social aspect with the weight value of 0/238

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Introduction

Sustainable development issue has become an important issue that needs to be socialized to the community. One of the parts of the sustainable development is transportation. Sustainable transportation means an effort to fulfill the need of transportation mobility of the current generation without degrading the ability of the future generation in fulfilling the need of transportation of its people with the environment friendly technology. This concept is interpreted as an effort in improving the facility for bike users, pedestrians, communication facilities, or the providing of cheap and environment friendly public transportation. The economy aspects, and social economy are inseparable unit to realize sustainable city layout (Puppim de Oliveira, 2013)

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