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Transport Policies and Planning in Bandung

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Rapid urbanisation, fast economic growth and high-density urban form created urban transport challenges in Bandung, which traditionally responded by widening existing and building new roads. The resulting increase in motorisation caused an eventual decline of public transport and increasing air pollution. This chapter investigates transport-related decision-making in Bandung and puts urban transport, spatial planning, development planning and climate change policies under a spotlight to trace how Bandung’s BRT project was initiated by central government and carried out by the city government. The central government’s decision to introduce BRT as ‘a pilot project’ had financial consequences for the Bandung city government. The BRT development as a whole did not take account of the socio-political situation in Bandung, where local politicians were keen to carry out a BRT project, while local transport operators strongly resisted this initiative. The BRT project in Bandung aims to improve the quality of public transport services to enhance public transport’s safety, comfort, punctuality and overall quality while charging affordable fares. However, angkot drivers, who perceived they might lose their livelihood, resisted the project in a citywide protest. This resistance caused the BRT project to be developed in the urban periphery, making the project unattractive to residents. This chapter shows the important role of local political dynamics and of engaging community organisations in policy implementation at the local level.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Unit was established by Mayoral Regulation No. 265/2008 and placed under the Bandung Department of Transport.

  2. 2.

    The Bandung Spatial Plan was enacted in 2004 as Local Regulation No. 02/2004 and revised in 2006 as Local Regulation No. 03/2006 and again, as a result of an adjustment made to Law No. 26/2007, in 2011 as Local Registration No. 18/2011. The revision to Law No. 26/2007 was intended to facilitate the development of guidelines for spatial planning for the following 30 years.

  3. 3.

    The Spatial Plan for West Java Province was enacted as Local Regulation No. 22/2010.

  4. 4.

    This general framework for spatial planning was enacted as Government Regulation No. 26/2008.

  5. 5.

    The 2005–2025 RPJPD (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Panjang Daerah) was enacted as Local Regulation No. 08/2008.

  6. 6.

    In its most recent revision, the Plan was enacted as Local Regulation No. 08/2011.

  7. 7.

    The Plan was enacted by the West Java Province Governor’s Regulation No. 56/2012.

  8. 8.

    The cities selected were Pekanbaru, capital of Riau Province, Sumatra; Palembang , capital of South Sumatra Province; Bandung, capital of West Java Province ; Yogyakarta , capital of Yogyakarta Special Region on Java; Semarang , capital of Central Java Province; Surabaya, capital of East Java Province ; Denpasar , capital of Bali Province; and Manado, capital of North Sulawesi Province.

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    Bus stations and bus shelters vary in design and number of passengers they serve.

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Wijaya, S.E., Imran, M. (2019). Transport Policies and Planning in Bandung. In: Moving the Masses: Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low Income Asian Cities. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2938-8_4

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