The Effects of Improving Public Transport System Linkage to Spatial Strategy on Controlling Urban Sprawl: Evidence from Surabaya City, Indonesia

Type Working Paper - TRAIL Research School
Title The Effects of Improving Public Transport System Linkage to Spatial Strategy on Controlling Urban Sprawl: Evidence from Surabaya City, Indonesia
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
URL http://rstrail.nl/sites/default/files/ambarwati_lasmini.pdf
Abstract
The improvement of public transport system is a major requirement to minimize urban sprawl. Urban sprawl phenomenon has been a huge issue since 20th century characterized by a rapid and unbalanced settlement development with transportation network particularly in a suburban area. Academic researches have explained the linkage strategy between transportation network and urban planning. However, insufficient empirical verification has been made to control this phenomenon by using the alternative strategies of space-transport development. This paper focuses on analyzing the improvement of public transport supply incorporated with settlement development. The improvement of public transport (PT) is designed by planning Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), Light Rapid Transit (LRT), and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), and feeder system. The impact of PT improvement has affected on the settlement development. Alternative related to urban strategies are established by setting balance between employment and population density. These approaches are necessary in order to analyze and evaluate the many alternatives to overcome this situation. The result reveals that the requirement to linkage the improvement of public transport supply and urban strategy in order to control settlement development in the suburb has to be done to increase double the usage possibility to public transport mode. The strategies should be done in the further research with considering on impact assessment and the residents preferences intended to determine the preferred alternative for them.

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