Kajian Preferensi Masyarakat dan Sikap Pemerintah Terkait Reaktivasi (Penghidupan Kembali) Jalur Kereta Api Semarang - Yogyakarta

• Main Author: Reinaldo Butar Butar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Diponegoro University 2015-12-01
• Series: Jurnal Wilayah dan Lingkungan
• Subjects: Community Preferences; Government Position; Reactivation Policy
• Online Access: http://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/jwl/article/view/482
• ISSN: 2338-1604; 2407-8751

The cross of Semarang – Magelang – Yogyakarta along ± 130 km is now connected to the highway infrastructure. This condition makes the highway based on the road be the only alternative modes of transportation used by people to travel. This condition makes some roads that cross Bawen – Ambarawa – Magelang – Yogyakarta experienced a density that resulted in congestion. The government has a policy to reactive the railroad that once operated as a mode of transport cross Semarang-Yogyakarta. If this policy is implemented, people will have a choice of alternative modes of transportation. The study aims to assess people's preferences and attitudes related to the government policies reactivation of the rail lines cross Semarang – Yogyakarta. This study was conducted using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research. The analysis was performed by descriptive quantitative and qualitative methods, which is after scoring the analysis results obtained community preferences, cross tabulation analysis and continued with qualitative descriptive analysis. This study finding is the variables such as travel costs, travel time, accessibility and qualitative attitude (comfort, security and safety) have relationships with community preferences to switch to using the railway mode. Then, when the public preference is compared with the attitude of the government, the result is there is a match between the preferences of public and the government's attitude for the qualitative attitude and accessibility variables. However, travel costs and travel time variables are the mismatch between what the preferences of the community with what the government's position.