New Developments and Urban Mobility in Jakarta Area

Large-scale housing development has dominated new urban development in Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) and created sprawl development following a fast growing business and economic activities within this area. Whilst supply of transport infrastructure as well as public transport services takes a slow path to response due to the scarce public funds and poor private involvement. Imbalance between supply and demand in turn then creates a widening gap of services with an implication to lowering urban mobility due to more congested road network, particularly radial roads, and lack of penetration by public transport services to new developments. The absence of obligations for new development to share in providing mobility's needs likely contributes to the escalation of the problems. This paper presents some facts and findings of a preliminary investigation of a research with an objective to investigate possible planning obligations of new development in providing share of mobility. The expected outcome of the research is to propose an evaluation framework of new development to deal with mobility problems in JMA.