IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY AND ADEQUACY OF URBAN ROAD-PASSENGER TRANSPORT
ABSTRACT: This study offered
ways to improve the efficiency and adequacy of urban public transport in
Kupang, taking as the background the viewpoint that urban transport should
concern not only middle and high income people but urban poor as well. It
focused on three principle modes of public transport in the city, two of which
are formal: city bus, and bemo, and the remaining one is informal/paratransit
locally known as ‘ojek’. It took urban transport strategic review published
recently by the World Bank as the quarry form which solutions for efficiency
and adequacy the city’s passenger-transport were drawn and developed as to suit
specific demand of the same. It concluded that to improve the service of public
transport in the city, ‘competition-for the-market’ should be introduced into
the market of its urban transport form of for-the-market competition
recommended are route-concession. It stressed also however that prior to it
state-owned motor companies should be privatized, and their capacity to engage
in an open competition should be made better. As for bemo, service-contract
should be introduced into the relation between the owner and the operators,
whereas paratransit should be recognized and regarded as part of the whole
urban public transportation system.
Key-Words: Concession;
Formal-Transport; For-the-Market Competition; Informal-Transport; In-the-Market
Competition; Paratransit; Public-Transport; Urban-Public-Transport
Author: Jusuf J. S. Pah
Journal Code: jptsipilgg120003
