Informal Public Transport Essay

Case Studies: Global Context

3.1. Informal Public Transportation Networks in three Indonesian cities

According to the study of Informal Public Transport in Indonesia, the Indonesian cities become prosperous day by day in terms of the mobility among the urban poor. The government provided public transport is insufficient, so informal public transport in the form of different modes like OJEK, ANGKOT, BAJAJ, BECAK, CALO, KELINCI etc. which provides faster service on various routes but they also contributing to the congestion. To understand the informal public transport in each and every aspect, three important Indonesian cities were chosen like Jogja, Solo in central java and Palembang in Sumatra which are differ in population, size, form and purpose.

The nature of all the three different cities are different form each other.

• JOGJA “Hub and Spokes” City: In this city, the road network facilitates the movement of people from the from the central part of the city to the surrounding neighbourhoods and also to the edge of the city. Most of the important employment and activity areas of the city are located in the centre or around the city boundary area.

• SOLO “Polycentric” city: It is very old city having dense and compact neighbourhood with a number of employment and activity centres. Out of all the roads, few of them are from the city centre to the periphery but most of the roads connecting the numerous important centres.

• PALEMBANG “Linear City”: This city is larger than both the cities, almost twice the size of Jogja and Solo. Most of the development and the major activity centres are located along the corridor, which runs North-South through the