KEBIJAKAN PELAYANAN ANGKUTAN KOTA DI KOTA SEMARANG TAHUN 2005-2007

Abstract

The increases of population in the cities and the increases of life quality in urban demands the growth and management of public service facilities professionally. City transportation of Semarang as part of public service facility is very interesting to examine, recalling the function of public carrier within this urban in attenuate an economic circle. A city transportation service of Semarang is ideal enough-qualified which safe, comfortable, fluent, timely, a reachable by people becomes an expectation support. However, what appear in daily life that is the same condition not been yet realized maximally. Even, sometimes public carrier is accused as a cause the happened of traffic jam, disorganize, and irregularity of traffic system in Semarang. Purpose need to be achieved in the research is to know how the government policy and those constraints which faced in the policy implementation toward public transportation service of Semarang in year 2005 – 2007. Then, to appraise the success or no concerning policy implementation is supported by the emerging of several problems regarding transportation infrastructures, transportation media, road user/human resource and traffic. The research uses a descriptive qualitative research method to describe about situation and realities. The research is using an observation, interview and literature techniques. Based on research result, it is demonstrates that the policy implementation of public transportation service in Semarang 2005-2007 is still less success. It is proved that service users are still feels less secure, ill timed, less ordered, uncomfortable, less inexpensive, and many private vehicles bring to a traffic jam. The transportation service of Semarang is still low, for example, caused by policy implementation get constraints, such as: bad economic condition and low-quality human resource especially is passenger quality and transportation service user. Keywords : POLICY, CITY TRANSPORTATION SERVICE