Feasibility of carpooling scheme development in bandung city from the perspective of travelers preference kelayakan pengembangan skema carpooling di kota bandung dari perspektif preferensi penumpang

The imbalance between supply and demand in Bandung City transport system has been the cause of the declining transport performance of this city. Supply approach by increasing road network capacity is considered as no longer effective due to the limited developable road space. Demand approach seems to be a prospective solution to the problem. Among others, carpooling is considered as a promising scheme to reduce traffic volume by increasing vehicle’s average occupancy rate. The scheme is developed by attracting some travelers whose trip destinations are in one corridor to join the same vehicle. This research figures out the feasibility of the implementation of carpooling scheme from the point of view of traveler preferences. Based on Arcamanik Residential Area, Bandung City, the result of the research shows that this scheme is potential to be implemented with the percentage of respondents’ willingness to change mode of 93%. However, after ride matching was introduced, respondents’ percentage of willing to join this scheme declined to 71% on leaving and 79% on the way back home. This research furthermore identifies some constraints in fulfilling traveler preference on carpooling scheme. The constraints are on the point to point pick-up system and walking distance preference that cannot totally be fulfilled.