The current condition of rural public transport is not planned well, which causes the decreases of the effectiveness and efficiency of the rural area transport system as a whole. Rural area transportation is one of the important public transportation means to support the rural communities’ activities and mobility, and to accelerate the distribution of development results in rural areas. Rural transportation in the National Transportation System plays an important role as the connector from the production center (agriculture, plantations, fisheries, livestock) to the collection center, and/or to the activity center in the capital of regencies. Currently there are 17,504 villages in Indonesia, spreading across 34 provinces, which all have extraordinary potencies if they all can be developed, like in Lombok Tengah Regency, there are 124 villages/urban-villages and Sintang has 173 villages/urban villgaes. The study to plan and manage rural goods transport has the purpose to measure the production and consumption of current goods and to estimate the future condition of rural areas, to identify the distribution and collection of goods in rural areas, to plan the patterns of distribution and collection of goods in rural areas, to identify the current conditions of area rural goods transportation infrastructure and facilities and to estimate future needs, and to optimize rural area goods transport service networks. The result shows that the goods transport services shall be planned and managed immediately taking into account that economic and spatial developments in the region will generate the potency of cargo transport in the future and shall be anticipated as early as possible to create an effective and efficient transportation system. The implementation of policies to regulate goods transportation services shall be carried out in a coordinated and simultaneous manner between all the related parties involved, in which the Transportation Agency as a Leading Sector shall be able to make public-oriented policies extensively.

policy; rural; transportation

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