Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 159
Abstract: More than 90% of freight movement in Indonesia is carried out by land transportation (mostly highway mode). Meanwhile most nationwide is surrounded by ocean, in which the movement can actually be carried out by sea transportation. There are Rail network in Java Island and some parts of Sumatera Island, so multimodal/inter-modality system can be applied. In fact, lack of sea and rail transportation infrastructure and management makes highway mode is still the main choice among other transportation modes. This study is conducted in relation to the impact of overloading truck in the freight transportation system in Indonesia, because the government is still allowing tolerance up to 50 percent to the normal load for each truck. This tolerance has influence to road deterioration or vehicle damage factor approximately 5 times higher. So that, overloading have a big impact to the maintenance of the road and will influence to road maintenance budget.
