Traffic Engineering and Grade of Service of Passenger Flow in LRT Palembang

The existence of light train or light rail transit (LRT) in Palembang city will provide many benefits. One of them is facilitate the flow of transportation. This study aims to analyze the capacity of the number of passengers that can be served by LRT in the city of Palembang on condition that the quality of LRT service is still good. If the train travel from the airport station to the depo station from 6:00 to 18:00 hours using the first scenario is 1 series of train that consist 3 carriages per series, it will be able to carry 35,072 passengers, the second scenario is using 2 series of train that consist 3 carriages per series, it will be able to carry 70,144 passengers, and if using the third scenario is 6 series of train that consist 5 carriages per series, it will be able to carry as many as 350,720 passengers. LRT Palembang can reduce road congestion by 14.18% for first scenario and 28.36% for second scenario, and for third scenario can carry all passengers.