The Accessibility Level of Balikpapan Botanical Garden According to Public Transportation Routes (Balikpapan Botanical Garden Development Concept)
East Kalimantan Government had proposed to expand its tourism division, therefore Balikpapan Botanical Garden has to attract tourist to visit. Accessibility has certain degree of effect to affect visitor trip to certain area. Accessibility is a key feature to evaluating transportation system. Measuring accessibility involving how to measure distance from one point to another as the metric. Providing transport accessibility is an essential element of tourist infrastructure development. The analysis method used in this paper is buffer analysis. This method consists of identifying area surrounding geographic feature. It involving generates buffer around existing geographic feature, then identifying feature whether it locates inside or outside the boundary of the buffer. Balikpapan Botanical Garden had medium accessibility. The nearest collector street from Balikpapan Botanical Garden already have public transportation route. Hotels and Balikpapan Botanical Garden were connected via public transportation route. drawback that affect Balikpapan Botanical Garden accessibility was the distance from public transportation stop point to Balikpapan Botanical Gate may less ideal for pedestrian. The trip took about 35 minutes on foot as far as 2.8 kilometres.