LINTAS-LC 1.0: Modeling and Simulation of Traffic in Lingkar Cileunyi Bandung Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract Smooth traffic is one of the parameters of the government’s good performance in managing the transportation system. The smoothness of traffic plays an important role in improving community development which covers the fields of economy, social, culture, education and technology. Along with the increase in population, traffic becomes more congested and occurs in various places. This situation will reduce the level of productivity, economy, social and welfare of the community, while increasing air pollution and waste of fuel. One of the congested locations that make concern is the path of Cileunyi road, which is located in the Cibiru sub-district and Cileunyi district bordering Bandung City and the Regency, Indonesia. The traffic congestion occurs starting from the starting point of Cinunuk road to the end by length 2.9 Km. The Cinunuk road is the only non-highway road that connects traffic in the northern region the south and east region. This resulted in a high volume of vehicles going through the route, so that traffic congestions occur every day from 6am to 11pm, and it’s getting worst on the day before weekend or holiday. An alternative solution that is relatively appropriate, effective, and efficient to solve the congestion problem is to build an alternative route known as the circle lane of cileunyi (lingkar cileunyi - LC). This route is a new road that planned by government through a different area with the Cinunuk road for the purpose of breaking down the traffic congestion. In this article, we propose a traffic simulation system to preview the traffic situation on the Cinunuk and the LC road, which is named as “LINTAS-LC 1.0”. The simulator is intended to analyse and simulate the level of congestion that occurs in the Cinunuk road, and make a feasibility study on the discourse on the development of the LC road. Through the LINTAS-LC simulator, it is expected to predict the effectiveness of LC road development in describing congestion in the Cinunuk road. The LINTAS-LC simulator is compiled using the SimEvents-MATLAB toolbox on the basis of Mathematics, specifically the queuing theory.