The Commuting Pattern Analysis Of Commuters From Depok City West Java

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the commuting pattern of commuters from Depok City. Quantitative descriptive method was used and survey was conducted in this research. The population of this research are 395.093 commuters from Depok and 100 commuters were selected as the sample. The result of this research are the characteristic of commuters based on its status can be classified into workers and students. Spatial commuting pattern that found on this research is headed to Jakarta as 97 percent while the rest go to South Tangerang. Based on the region characteristic, commuters come from suburb to CBD and suburb to suburb. There are 40 percent of respondents commute to Central Business Distict (CBD) of Jakarta, especially workers. The average distances of commuters are 26 kilometers and the commuting duration is 86 minutes. Non-spatial commuting pattern was related to the main mode of transport that use, there are Motorbike (43%) and Train (37%). The farther the distance is, the number of public transport users increase, especially for women. The typical of public transport users is ‘transit choice user’, which is related to the availability of public transport facility nearby their origin. Those who have high accessibility toward public transport live less than 5 kilometers from nodal interchanges (train station and bus stops).