Understanding Student Travel Behaviour in Semarang City

2nd Geoplanning - International Conference on Geomatics and Planning

Manullang, O.R.^1 ; Tyas, W.P.^1 ; Anas, N.^1 ; Aji, F.N.^1

Urban and Regional Planning Department, Diponegoro University, Tembalang, Semarang

50275, Indonesia^1

关键词: Analysis method;    High school students;    Main mode;    Number of vehicles;    Public transport;    Student travel;    Travel behaviors;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/123/1/012016/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/123/1/012016

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The highest movement in Semarang City is dominated by motorcycles, which reached 79% of the number of vehicles. Highest percentage movement use motorcycle caused the highest percentage accident by motorcycle users, which reached 66% and 9% involving high school students. This happens because of the dependence of motorcycles usage in fulfilling the needs of movement in the city of Semarang. Understanding student travel behavior based on their activities is used to know travel needs and the cause of dependence on motorcycle usage. Analysis method in this study use network analysis to compare the potential accessibility and actual accessibility to known why motorcycle chosen by students as the main mode. In addition, phenomenology analysis is used to explain the intent and reasons the data produced by network analysis. The analysis result indicates that the high use of motorcycles by high school students in the Semarang city due to the absence of other effective and efficient modes in fulfilling the movement needs. Even, the student which can potentially use public transport preferred to use a motorcycle. This mode is more effective and efficient because of its flexibility and lower costs.