Development of Public Transport System Strategies to Control Urban Sprawl

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Abstract-The phenomenon of urban sprawl has been a huge issue since the beginning of 20 th century and is characterized by rapid and unbalanced settlement development, with transportation network, particularly in the suburban areas. Academic researches have explained the linkage strategy between transportation network and urban planning. However, insufficient empirical verification has been carried out to reduce this phenomenon by using the integrated approach of space-transport development. This paper focuses on analyzing the improvement of public transport (PT)system strategies. The research is analyzed by using microscopic data and by distributing questionnaires in order to assess the impact of settlement development in the suburbs. The impact of PT improvement has an effect on the settlement. The conclusions reveal that the requirement to improve PT-system should be facilitated together with the expanding settlement development. The combination of PT-system has to be involved to reduce 35% in travel time and to increase doubling of the use of public transport.Index Terms-Public transport, urban sprawl, settlement development, suburban area. I. INTRODUCTIONRegarding urban development, a city expands to the outskirts of an urban area. This phenomenon has occurred in Europe and over the world. Most cities in Indonesia, it has created broad serious problems since the beginning of 20th. Urban sprawl has several features which impact on a low density zone, dependence on the automobile, spatial mismatch and job sprawling [1]. Several efforts to minimize the impact of this phenomenon have been conducted based on the previous researches. Discussion has been carried out on how to overcome this phenomenon by integrating activities into high density areas and land-use mixes in order to reduce vehicular travel [2], by considering the transportation role in combating the problems related to urban sprawl [3], by considering the provision of a public transport system at the suburban destinations for Greater Dublin Area (GDA) [4].According to [5], the urban containment strategies are some of the best-known planning instruments for managing urban sprawl. These include greenbelt and urban growth boundaries as applied in Switzerland since 1970. The strategies, particularly the boundary, have restricted development to building zones and have promoted the increase of building density. Other research related to urban Manuscript received December 9, 2013; revised March 11, 2014. Lasmini Ambarwati is with the Department of Transport and Planning, TU Delft, Netherlands; Department of Civil Engineering, Brawijaya University, Indonesia (e-mail: L.Ambarwati@tudelft.nl).Robert Verhaeghe, Adam J. Pel, and Bar Van Arem are with Department of Transport and Planning, TU Delft, Netherlands (e-mail: R.J.Vehaeghe@tudelft.nl).development strategy such as a compact city approach employed in Istanbul to control urban sprawl by developing different scenarios. The result demonstrated that urban sprawl can be reduced by up to 62 % through implementin...

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