ORGANIZATIONAL, OPERATIONAL
AND FINANCIAL REFORM 
ON URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT INDUSTRY 
(CASE: YOGYAKARTA PROVINCE) 

As the city of tourism, education, and culture Yogyakarta has been the destination for the other regions, not only in Indonesia but also abroad. The good accessiblity made Yogyakarta enable to develop rapidly. The tendency nowadays shows Yogyakarta with the population of 510.108 has been and is agglomerating to form a bigger urban area with the population of more than 1 million. It brings impact on the havier burden carried out by Yogyakarta in delivering the service for the people inside, including the service in terms of transportation. 

The characteristic of transportaton in Yogyakarta is mix traffic, in which all types of vehicle run in one road. The mix traffic condition thus result in the chaotic traffic. Some streets got jam sence the traffic volume was overloaded towards its capactiy. Besides, the non-machine vehicle and motorcycle, which is almost 80% of the total traffic volume in amount, seemed dominating the roads in Yogyakarta. Similar to other big cities, the people in Yogyakarta are highly mobile. The exsistance of public tranportation, bus is really needed to support the mobilization of the people in Yogyakarta. Buses will provide mobility for those who do not own private vehicles.

PUSTRAL in partnership with Yogyakarta Province Local Communication Office and Service Center Research, Karlstad University, Sweden has recently received a grant from EU-Indonesia Small Projects Facility (SPF) to conduct research on the organizational, operational and financial reform on urban public transport industry in Yogyakarta. The project will take 12 months starting October 22, 2004 to October 21, 2005.

The Financial and Organizational Reforms on Public Transport Industry project aims at reforming the existing regulatory policies and operational practices leading to an improved and more efficient urban bus operation, without neglecting business and commercial elements. The target groups for the actions are bus companies, local government transport office of Yogyakarta Province as the planner. These would be done through series of comprehensive researches/studies covering: assessment on current system, operation, financing, regulations and enforcement, development of a modern, commercial and customer oriented strategy followed by training and workshops to government staffs and bus operators on effective route and service planning, operational and maintenance system, followed by a demo project as a showcase for better operational system. This proposed scheme is in line with the Economy theme in the call for proposal, which includes economic policy and reform.

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 Caption:
 Yogyakarta's mix traffic

Co-financed by: 

Center for Transportation and Logistics Studies, Gadjah Mada University 
(PUSTRAL UGM)

Yogyakarta Province
Local Communication Office

Service Research Center
Karlstads University