Small and Medium Enterprise
Accessibility Monorails for
Urban Community in Jakarta
Contemporary societies heavily depend on transportation and modern social life is possible only if people have mobility on a daily basis—the ability to move around so that they can do what they have to do or like to do (Sigurd, 2004). On the one hand, high personal mobility and the lifestyle choices are features of modern societies but costs and constraints involved in meeting this demand threaten communities in important ways via financial impositions, increases in pollution and greenhouse effects and reduction of local amenity, promotion of dispersed development and the take up of farm or bush land and depletion of scarce fossil fuel reserves (G, 1999, pp. 11-122).Nowadays almost every day mass media in Indonesia review the issues about poor public transport and increasing levels of traffic congestion in Jakarta. The problem of congestion and poor of public transporation services is the triggers that increased of using private cars in Jakarta which causes the high acceleration rate of growth private motor vehicles, both motorcycles and cars since 1999 (Table.1). Congestion reducing approach by push the using of private motor vehicles and revitalize of public transportation services is to be important. Failure of transportation systems will interfere with the development of an area, affecting the efficiency of the urban economy. Provides good public transportation service will encourage people to change from private vehicles to public transportation. Based on this fact, the people in Jakarta hope that Jakarta Provincial Government immediately revitalize the public transportation services.
Given the fact how important to managing for excellence in public transportation, one of those benefits is public transportation improves the quality of life in communities by providing safe, efficient, and economical transportation service (Kleiner, 2005, p. 154). The availability and cost effectiveness of public
Urban Community in Jakarta
Contemporary societies heavily depend on transportation and modern social life is possible only if people have mobility on a daily basis—the ability to move around so that they can do what they have to do or like to do (Sigurd, 2004). On the one hand, high personal mobility and the lifestyle choices are features of modern societies but costs and constraints involved in meeting this demand threaten communities in important ways via financial impositions, increases in pollution and greenhouse effects and reduction of local amenity, promotion of dispersed development and the take up of farm or bush land and depletion of scarce fossil fuel reserves (G, 1999, pp. 11-122).Nowadays almost every day mass media in Indonesia review the issues about poor public transport and increasing levels of traffic congestion in Jakarta. The problem of congestion and poor of public transporation services is the triggers that increased of using private cars in Jakarta which causes the high acceleration rate of growth private motor vehicles, both motorcycles and cars since 1999 (Table.1). Congestion reducing approach by push the using of private motor vehicles and revitalize of public transportation services is to be important. Failure of transportation systems will interfere with the development of an area, affecting the efficiency of the urban economy. Provides good public transportation service will encourage people to change from private vehicles to public transportation. Based on this fact, the people in Jakarta hope that Jakarta Provincial Government immediately revitalize the public transportation services.
Given the fact how important to managing for excellence in public transportation, one of those benefits is public transportation improves the quality of life in communities by providing safe, efficient, and economical transportation service (Kleiner, 2005, p. 154). The availability and cost effectiveness of public
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