INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Vol. 2, No. 1 Maret 2008

THE ERGONOMICS PROBLEM IN TROTOIR CONSTRUCTION

Sutjana, I Dewa Putu (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Nov 2012

Abstract

Trotoir construction has become as one of the priorities of development in every town inBali Province; it is in accordance with the evaluation criteria of successful town development.The functions of trotoir are to provide comfortable and safety path for pedestrians and toprevent the traffic jam. But, unfortunately it has not yet met to the purpose. In relation to theproblem the study had been done to the trotoir condition along the street in Denpasar town. Theresults sowed that in general the trotoir (old and new construction) are not flat, too height, notcontinued, blocked by tree, traffic light pole, or holy building etc. These conditions produceunsafety and uncomfortable for the pedestrians especially to the elderly, handicapped (eye orleg) persons, wheel chair, baby trolley. In some trotoirs the accidents had been happened.Therefore, it is suggested that the trotoir must be constructed flatly, continued, not too height,synchronized with drainage system, street construction, electricity and telephone net work, andtree plantation for the green peace program.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijbs

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Indonesia Journal of Biomedical Science (IJBS), Print-ISSN 2085-4773; E-ISSN 2302-2906 is an international and peer-reviewed journal published twice per year in print and online by Indonesian of Biomedical Association in collaboration to Postgraduate School of Biomedicine Udayana University, ...