著者

Harun alRasyid LUbis

出版者

Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

雑誌

Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

巻号頁・発行日

pp.329, 2009 (Released:2010-08-25)

被引用文献数

5

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Excessive growth of motorcycle in Indonesia resulting a problematic to the society particularly road users. Three motorcycles market rank are China, India then Indonesia. Aggressively, motorcycles industries expanded their manufacturing capacity to meet the local market and overseas, as well as dealers and agents were intensively conducting distribution and tempted marketing. Social and economic impacts of motorcycles use may include: economics growth, traffic accident, traffic jam and the environment impacts. This paper outlines some policy instruments that are possibly applied to control motorcycles negativity impact. Besides its utility, motorcycles growth and usage need to be restricted, effective policy instruments should be sought in order to minimize risk and protect the public interests. Some research agendas for the continuation of the study are also outlined.