Safety Culture in Indonesia’s Road Transport

Authors

  • Sri Handayani Handayani Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics
  • Tri Mulyani Setyowati Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics
  • Muhammad Iqbal Firdaus Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54324/j.mtl.v6i2.315

Keywords:

safety culture, traffic safety, road transport, road traffic, road accidents, transportation

Abstract

Transportation with all of its branches is dependent on an infrastructure which consider safety. Road transport has a large number of accidents, but do not received the same attention on media compare to major accidents in other branch of transportation regarded as dramatic ones. The main objective of this study is to describe the facts and to help shift public behavior and attitude, influence policy and therefore contribute towards saving lives. The research is carried out by executing literature review, due to very less information and limited data. The result of the study highlighted the magnitude of people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes and shows the lack of road safety awareness of  public and road users.

Author Biographies

Sri Handayani Handayani, Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics

Faculty of Management and Business

Tri Mulyani Setyowati, Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics

Faculty of Management and Business

Muhammad Iqbal Firdaus, Trisakti Institute of Transportation and Logistics

Faculty of Management and Business

References

Indonesian Central Agency of Statistics (2015) ‘Bps-File (1) Asphalt and Non Asphalt Road’.

Indonesian Central Agency of Statistics (2019a) ‘bps-file (3) jumlah kendaraan bermotor’.

Indonesian Central Agency of Statistics (2019b) ‘bps-file number of road accidents’.

Indonesian Central Agency of Statistics (2019c) ‘Bpsfile (2) Panjang Jalan Menurut Tingkat Kewenangan’.

Red Cross (2007) Practical Guide on Road Safety: A Toolkit for National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. ‘Road safety situation in indonesia’ (2013) Europe-Asia Road Safety Forum, December 2013, New Delhi, India.

Siregar, A. (2013) ‘Membangun Masa Depan Keselamatan Lalu Lintas di Indonesia’, (May). doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10756.17289.

Sugiyanto, Gito & Santi, M. Y. (2015) ‘Karakteristik Kecelakaan Lalu Lintas dan Pendidikan Keselamatan Berlalu-lintas Sejak Usia Dini: Studi Kasus di Kabupaten Purbalingga’, Jurnal Ilmiah Semesta Teknika, 18 No. 1(1), pp. 65–75. Available at: http://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/st/article/download/707/857.

Verma, A. and Gupta, A. (2017) ‘Road Safety Improvement in India’, (November), pp. 3–6.

World Health Organization (2014) ‘Road safety : basic facts’, p. 23. ‘www.hukumonline.com’ (2009).

Downloads

Additional Files

Published

2019-10-03

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019): JULI

Section

Articles

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).