Kajian Kinerja dan Pengembangan Rute Angkutan Umum Penumpang Dalam Kota di Kota Salatiga

Abstract

The high intensity of economic activities in Salatiga City bring influence to the number and travel patterns of people and goods. The needs of people transportation from a place to another inside Salatiga City area, are served one by city transport (angkota) that are typed as passenger cars (daihatsu/ suzuki minibus). The service of transportation facilities such as angkota in Salatiga City in all routes have the city center as the final destination. This is because the downtown area is a center of trade and services and also there are government offices and other public buildings. This public transport pattern make traffic jams on the busy hours in the city center. As a result angkota often accused as one of the main causes of the occurrence of this bottleneck. To be able to improve the city's transportation services in the town of Salatiga, research needs to be done to analyze the performance of transportation of the city at this time, through the study of transportation routes.