The bus fare willing to pay by user’s due to a policy to reduce fuel price subsidies in Bandar Lampung

Public transport system management is not a simple thing. There is including various aspects, i.e.: the provision of transport mode, organizing the route, determining fares and so on. Moreover, that involves parties such as users, service provider as operators and the government as the decision makers (regulators), especially in great setting fares.
Determination of fare policy involves many aspect, including cooperation and supervision among the agencies in charge of the public transport system as a whole. Factors that can not be ignored in determining the fare structure is large and the operating cost of vehicles used as a means of conveyance plus profit margins that have obtained vehicle operator as provider of transportation services, let alone the government does not provide subsidies in any form.
Fare has a significant relationship to the level of public transport services. The poor level of public transport services will cause users to leave using public transport as a means of fulfilling their mobility. Sometime, users feel that there is some lack of public transport service such as less convenient, less fast and with no freedom to choose a route when compared to using private vehicles. Due of this condition, the number of users will decrease significantly and will lower the revenue of service providers too. This condition is shown by the tendency of the increasing number of private vehicles on the road that will eventually result in congestion in everywhere.
The condition has been descript above, will grow worse if the government of Indonesia adopted a policy to reduce fuel price subsidies. Ascertained, the increase in fuel prices will further increase vehicle-operating costs to be borne by the public transport operators. The first solution that operators have taken is raising the transport costs. On the other hand, the widespread effects that comes from increasing in fuel prices has directly felt by users too. The increasing in all basic needs prices and transport costs will automatically increase the live load is quite big.
To reduce the social impacts that arise due to upward adjustment in transport costs, the proper fare must set in accordance with their capabilities and expectations of all parties involved in the operation of public transport service i.e. users and operators.