Non-Ridership Presumption Toward New Bus Rapid Transit Purwokerto-Purbalingga Execution

Abstract

Purbalingga is a new mass transportation mode. Recently, the execution of the BRT has been going on for three years. In terms of service standards to ridership, the BRT has been fulfilled the requirement. However, during the execution, it shall be supported by the non-ridership (local communities) who get the impact as public engagement. The non-ridership impact is captured by observing their presumptions. This study uses quantitative method and survey technique to collect the data by spreading questionnaires to the non-ridership in Purwokerto and Purbalingga. The collected data is analyzed by Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Structural Equation Modelling Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The ANOVA results show that gender, age ratio, and residence (living area) are significant presumption factors. According to SEM-PLS model, the R-squared of non-ridership presumption variables toward the BRT execution as excellent public transportation is at 51.8% (moderate level). It is found that the economic variable affects the excellent public transportation variable is at 41.4%, and the social variable have a correlation with the excellent public transportation variable is at 36.2%, but not with the environment variable (5.6% only). Following up these findings, it is recommended that public engagement through the non-ridership presumption will lead the BRT provider to purpose some programs to improve the service and increase the occupancy. So that, the proposed program will attract the sense of awareness and public engagement of the non-ridership toward the BRT execution.

Text Clustering Approach Toward Community Expectations to the Bus Rapid Transit (Brt) Transjateng Purwokerto-Purbalingga Operations

“…Compared to other BRTs in Indonesia, the operation of the BRT discussed is still new and it needs more improvement and community engagement (Romadlon, 2020). The community engagement is from ridership and surrounding community who live nearby the bus stops (nonridership).…”

“…Even for women, much improvement of the BRT system is still needed, particularly the security aspect to support their mobility and maximize BRT benefits (Malik et al, 2020;Romadlon, 2021). The perspective of local communities as non-BRT users is also an important research point of view to support the implementation and sustainability of BRT in an area (Romadlon, 2020). Several examples of these previous studies show individual expectations and attitudes towards the existence of BRT are still a broad scope of research.…”