Urban Transportation Planning in the Perspective of Public Health in the City of Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Public health is one of the basic sectors that are influenced by transportation. Public health factors related with transportation performances are environmental quality, people access to health facilities, traffic safety, mode choice and its relationship with health, and disease spreading risk. Based on the case of Transportation Master Plan (Rencana Induk Transportasi Jakarta, RITJ) of Capital Jakarta, Indonesia, this paper explores the topic of how adequate urban transportation planning in Indonesia accommodate health factors in its process and substance. This study takes quantitative method to identify Jakarta transportation condition in relation with health sector and to understand to what extent transportation planning accommodate health factors. Qualitative method is also used to analyze people perception regarding the level of the transportation planning process in accommodating their interest in health. The research concludes that the negative impact of transportation activities to the health sector in Jakarta such as air pollution, traffic accident, and passive mode choice are still high. The RITJ planning process did not accommodate urban health criteria adequately. This paper suggests a better transportation planning to assure adequate accommodation of urban health criteria both in its process and substances.