Walkability Concept Toward Sustainable City: Comparative Insights of Brisbane and Bogor Urban Areas

Abstract

A successful sustainable city prioritizes humans by integrating the transportation system with urban development. Oneof which is considering walkability. The walkability concept is important since walking reduces congestion, promotes lowenvironmental impacts, and possesses social and economic values. Land use integration with walkable pedestrian facilities is achallenge for stakeholders in creating policies to actualize a sustainable city. This paper reviews the walkability conditionand policies concerning pedestrian facilities in Brisbane, Australia and Bogor, Indonesia. Bogor was selected due to itsstrategic location as Jakarta’s satellite city. Method used was literature review with comparative analysis, analyzing similarities,differences, advantages, and disadvantages of urban policies in prioritizing humans to achieve walkable and sustainable cityin Australia and Indonesia. The indicators determining Brisbane community’s behavior to walk are distance to destination(59%), travel time (14%), hot weather (19%), roads with various altitudes (4%), lack of paths (3%), and lack of green areas(1%). In Bogor, Indonesia, pedestrian facilities are lacked for people with special needs, elderlies, children, and pregnantwomen (16.5%), unsafe crossing facilities (19.8%), and unsafe rider behaviors (15.8%). Policies related to walkability can beused as a basis to influence the behavior of urban communities in walking, to achieve the shared goal: a sustainable city.

Keywords

• walkability
• walkable city
• sustainable city
• policy
• bogor
• brisbane