TOD Model through Low Carbon City Concept in Urban Design (case study: Palembang, Indonesia)

Nowadays, Indonesia confronts urbanization, which raises many problems in the urban area, one of them is carbon emissions. Many researches have been done to address the issue of carbon emissions, TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) is one of them. This paper focuses entirely on how to develop the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) design through low carbon city concepts in Indonesia. The concept of low-carbon cities is potentially implemented for high-energy efficiency in the areas of transport and housing will be able to reduce carbon footprint by decreasing trip frequencies, greater public transportation use for residents, increasing of walking level and higher accessibility. The city has to stimulate compact development with the high mobility movement of space in which space, building and infrastructure will be incorporated into a complex to authorise for living varied, commercial and social space to merge in environmentally sustainability. The development of a design strategy for the stakeholders is needed to develop and promote design ideas to optimise the spatial structure of cities. This paper aims to improve low carbon city model by adding integration between the urban spatial structure and land use to promote urban mixed, mobility, walkability, urban connectivity, and accessibility. These strategies will be used in a new development city in Palembang. Palembang is selected as representative of the rising megapolitan city in Indonesia where it still has capabilities for new spatial development planning to be improved the quality of life, well-planned new connectivity and sustainable cities. In this issue the TOD approach will be harmonized with the low carbon city concept.