Depok, August 10th, 2023. Three students from the Faculty of Engineering (FT) at Universitas Indonesia (UI) provided strategic ideas for optimizing Smart City 2030. As part of the 2030 Bahagia team, these three students offered optimization strategies by utilizing Public Transport Coverage Areas, Transportation Facilities, and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) system.
Wahyu Aji Saputra (class of 2019), Almaurizka Verninda and Hana Nisrina Fathin (class of 2020) chose the location of Semarang City as the location for implementing the Smart City 2030 optimization strategy.
“We chose Semarang City because this city already has public transportation that serves the first mile and last mile. In addition, Semarang City has a type of urban planning structure that is in accordance with the concentric city theory with an existing coverage area of 59.84%. Currently, there are 2 public transportations operating in Semarang City, namely Trans Semarang as BRT which stops at bus stops and angkot as feeders which can stop anywhere along the route. However, the availability of public transportation in the city of Semarang is in fact not on target,” said Wahyu Aji.
By looking at the various conditions of the City of Semarang, an optimization strategy has been devised to realize Semarang as a Smart City 2030 while increasing public transportation connectivity in the City of Semarang at the same time. The first strategy was to add a Bus Stop Point (Titik Pemberhentian Bus or TPB). TPB can increase the reach of the Public Transport Coverage Area in Semarang City.
“The proposed addition of TPB refers to the existing TPB and also the demand in several districts. Taking into account population density and potential users, we propose an additional 97 TPBs in Semarang City to be included in the proposed Trans Semarang development in several roads,” said Almaurizka.
The second strategy presented was optimizing public transportation routes. Angkot is public transportation that acts as a feeder in the city of Semarang, that’s why public transportation routes must be able to reach various residential areas. From the residential area data for the City of Semarang, the team proposed modifications to six public transportation routes by applying the route shape which refers to the general guidelines for network planning in 2020. From the quantitative analysis that was carried out, there was an increase in the percentage of coverage area by 5.68%.
Finally, the third strategy was optimizing bicycle paths. “Currently, the city of Semarang only has six bicycle lanes on the city center protocol road. Meanwhile, there are also quite a lot of bicycle users in suburban areas. Therefore, optimizing bicycle lanes can be developed in suburban areas that are close to settlements, schools and work centers. The hope is that the bicycle path can be utilized as a feeder transportation facility to reach the nearest public transportation mode,” explained Hana.
Apart from these three optimization strategies, there are also several facilities that can support Smart City 2030, namely the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and Mobility as a Service which can support the quality of mobility of urban communities, such as Real-time Traffic Monitor, Integrated ICT, and Monitor Screen Standalone.
“The optimization strategy carried out by the Bahagia 2030 Team to address the availability of public transportation in the city of Semarang is a form of support to reduce the level of congestion in Indonesia and to support the realization of the Smart City 2030 concept. Realizing this concept will certainly be an asset in the future to prepare Indonesia in becoming a developed country with superior infrastructure and transportation facilities,” explained Prof. Dr. Heri Hermansyah, S.T., M.Eng., IPU.
Providing this optimization strategy has led the 2030 Bahagia Team to win the National Transportation Analysis event held by the Tarumanegara University Civil Engineering Student Association. They were crowned as the third winner, which was announced last May, by eliminating many representative teams from various universities in Indonesia.
