Rapid Transit (BRT) Public Transport Service Corridor I: Alang Lebar to Dempo During the Covid 19 Pandemic in the City of Palembang Herlinawati Herlinawati 1 Yusri Bermawi 1,* , Moch. Absor 1 , A. Latif 1 , Muhammad Dimas 1 , Muhammad Arief M 1 , Muhammad Geraeldy 1 , Ibnusyah Alam 1 . 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya,Jalan Srijaya Negera Palembang, 30154, Indonesia * Corresponding author. Email: yusribermawi18@gmail.com ABSTRACT The Palembang city government has implemented Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) since 2010 until now, in order to carry out the replacement/renewal of the City Bus. The BRT in the city of Palembang called "BRT Trans Musi" consists of two business entities, namely BRT owned by BUMD SP2J (Palembang Jaya Development Facilities) and owned by the Ministry of Land Transportation, namely PT. TMPJ (Trans Musi Palembang Jaya). PT. TMPJ operates in Palembang on June 2, 2020, during the "Covid 19 Pandemic" in progress With its relatively recent operation, it is very necessary to conduct a study of BRT services at TMPJ, especially the Alang-Alang Lebar to Dempo corridor in order to be able to continue its operations. The method used in this study is direct traffic observation on the corridors traversed by BRT buses. From data analysis obtained: mean headway = 8 minutes; service time =29 seconds; travel time = 1 hour 56 minutes 15 seconds; operational speed = 20.85 km/hour and load factor = 50.02 %. This load factor if calculated based on the vehicle seat capacity = 0.261 % Keywords: Bus, Traverser, load factor, vehicle 1. INTRODUCTION The definition of public transportation in the Decree of the Minister of Transportation No. KM.35 of 2003 concerning the Implementation of People Transportation on the road by Public Vehicle is the transfer of people/goods from one place to another using a vehicle. The purpose of public transport services is to provide safe, fast, comfortable, inexpensive services to people whose mobility is increasing, especially for workers in carrying out their activities [1-2]. The government continues to strive to improve services in the transportation sector for urban communities by carrying out renewals from City Bus to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). BRT is a bus system that is fast, convenient, safe, and on-time from infrastructure, vehicles and schedules. Use the bus to serve service of better quality than other bus services. The BRT system certainly uses a different improvised system, although the improvised sharing with other BRT systems. The result of the system was to approach rail transit if it still enjoyed the safety of bus fares[3-4]. The Palembang city government has implemented it since 2010 until now. BRT operating in the city of Palembang is based on semi BRT. Semi BRT is a mass transportation service that has the characteristics of bus stops, special buses, special ticket systems, frequent and regular service frequencies throughout the day, but does not yet have a special route due to several factors, namely narrow roads and urban development that is too close to the road [5]. Based on Government Regulations, according to the Decree of the Minister of Transportation number Km.35 of 2003 dated August 23, 2003 in article 6 paragraph (1), verse (20), verse (3) concerning the operation of public transportation on the road by public transportation, that the addition of the transport fleet (open tray) in a route is possible if the average Load Factor (LF) exceeds 0.70 or 70% [6 -10]. The BRT in the city of Palembang called "BRT Trans Musi" consists of two business entities, namely BRT owned by BUMD SP2J (Palembang Jaya Development Facilities) and owned by the Ministry of Land Transportation, namely PT. TMPJ (Trans Musi Palembang Jaya). PT. TMPJ operates in Palembang on Atlantis Highlights in Engineering, volume 9 5 th FIRST T1 T2 2021 International Conference (FIRST-T1-T2 2021) Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 59