Transportation Demand Management: A Park and Ride System to Reduce Congestion in Palembang City Indonesia

AbstractPark and Ride is one of Transport Demand Management (TDM) scheme, which is very popular in some congested city with wide parking area at the border line or outskirt area. Palembang is capital city of South Sumatera Province, which has three Terminals in the border area with surrounding kabupaten (district). Right now the Terminal is not functioned appropriately because many public transport vehicles are loading and unloading passengers outside the Terminal, or on the street nearby the Terminal. On the other hand, the city centre itself has been crowded of private vehicles (car and motor cycle). The current on street parking system has been no longer adequate. According to Cities Development Initiatives for Asia (CDIA) study 2011, about 1382 cars and 1431 motorcycles need a place to park in the city centre. The aims of this paper are to present the characteristics of trips surrounding the Terminal and to know their potential of accepting Park and Ride system, and to plan the program and policy regarding Park and Ride in Palembang. The Data was collected by doing Home Interview survey in Palembang, with 4000 sample of Households (Buchari, 2011). Method of Analysis is descriptive Analysis, Cross tabulation, matrices analysis and multimodal analysis. The data from previous study was used to analyze the interconnection Terminal location with trips from surrounding areas. The results showed the potential shifting from private vehicle user to park and ride user