The development of software for calculating green open space adequacy to absorb CO2 in Bangkalan city

Abstract

Bangkalan Regency, located at the west of Madura Island covering the area 1,260.14 Km2, has developed tremendously in some recent years, particularly in the post-development of Suramadu Bridge. To anticipate detrimental effects on the environment due to Bangkalan Regency improvement, the researchers developed software for calculating total CO2 emissions of vehicles that could be absorbed by Green Open Space (GOS) in this city. The software was developed through Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) based on the results of empirical study upon emission load and total trees calculation required for absorbing emission residue of vehicles. The software yielded from this research was successfully developed as indicated by the appropriateness of results between manual calculation and software one.