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Ahmad Yani road section (direction of SPBU-Rapak) is an arterial road located in Balikpapan industrial area. As a result of the construction of the Balikpapan RDMP project in the industrial area, there is an increase in the on-street parking from the project vehicles that decrease the speed of passing vehicles. This study aims to determine the performance of the Ahmad Yani road (SPBU-Rapak) due to side obstacles caused by the construction of the Balikpapan RDMP project. The research includes data collection for 6 days, 2 hours each, at 15.00-17.00 WITA. The traffic performance analysis is then calculated using the Indonesia Road Capacity Guidelines method (PKJI, 2014). The study also measures the speed reduction due to the movement of the side obstacles caused by the RDMP project vehicles. The preliminary survey shows that starting at 07.30 WITA, the side of the section is dominated by cars and buses belonging to the Balikpapan RDMP project. Therefore, this study analyzes the movement of the side obstacles instead of the side obstacles itself. The result of the study is that the section has the capacity of 1426,92 pcu/hour, and the degree of saturation at 0,82. The side movement of RDMP vehicles (entering and leaving the side of the section) reduces vehicle speed by 16%-50%. The service level of this segment is included in class D. This study suggests the project to provide adequate parking facilities to tackle the side obstacle problem.

Pada lima tahun terakhir pertumbuhan pembangunan di sepanjang ruas jalan MT. Haryono mengalami pertumbuhan yang sangat pesat, mulai dari pembangunan property (perumahan dan ruko), pusat perbelanjaan, hingga menjamurnya usaha kuliner di sepanjang sisi ruas jalan, hal ini menyebabkan tingginya tarikan kendaraan menuju daerah tersebut. Adanya alih fungsi tata guna lahan di beberapa lokasi di Balikpapan menyebabkan tingginya bangkitan dan tarikan kendaraan pada daerah tersebut. Pada ruas jalan MT. Haryono terdapat banyak simpang, namun antrian panjang paling sering terjadi pada simpangan MT. Haryono - Ruhui Rahayu, kendaraan yang mengantri di traffic light rata-rata harus melewati 2 hingga 3 kali cycle time untuk dapat melewati persimpangan tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluas i kinerja simpang pada kondisi eksisting menggunakan metode MKJI dan Program SIDRA Intersection, mengetahui perbedaan kinerja dari kedua metode tersebut, hingga ke rekomendasi upaya perbaikan simpang. Hasil evaluasi kinerja simpang dengan metode MKJI diperoleh nilai LoS D pada lengan pendekat utara dengan nilai tundaan sebesar 39.4 det/smp, nilai LoS F pada lengan pendekat selatan dan barat dengan nilai tundaan masing 99.2 det/smp dan 152.9 det/smp, dan untuk pendekat timur nilai Los E dengan waktu tundaaan sebesar 57.7 det/smp. Sedangkan pada analisis Sidra Intersection diperoleh nilai LoS F pada semua lengan pendekat dengan waktu tundaan rata-rata pada semua simpang sebesar 122 det/kend. Untuk nilai DS pada metode MKJI dan Sidra Intersection terdapat perbedaan, dimana nilai DS MKJI pada lengan pendekat utara sebesar 1.36, pendekat selatan 1.21, pendekat barat 0.91, dan pendekat timur 0.80 sedangkan nilai DS berdasarkan Sidra Intersectioan adalah sebesar 1.2.

The increasing energy demand and the ever more pressing need for clean technologies of energy conversion pose one of the most urgent and complicated issues of our age. Thermoelectricity, namely the direct conversion of waste heat into electricity, is a promising technique based on a long-standing physical phenomenon, which still has not fully developed its potential, mainly due to the low efficiency of the process. In order to improve the thermoelectric performance, a huge effort is being made by physicists, materials scientists and engineers, with the primary aims of better understanding the fundamental issues ruling the improvement of the thermoelectric figure of merit, and finally building the most efficient thermoelectric devices. In this Roadmap an overview is given about the most recent experimental and computational results obtained within the Italian research community on the optimization of composition and morphology of some thermoelectric materials, as well as on the design of thermoelectric and hybrid thermoelectric/photovoltaic devices.