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This operational change would increase bus speeds and would allow fewer buses to<br />

handle the same number of passengers, making <strong>TransJakarta</strong> more profitable.<br />

Headway – 3 min<br />

Blok M<br />

Kota<br />

Bunderan Senayan<br />

Monas<br />

Headway – 3min<br />

Headway – 3 min<br />

Because <strong>TransJakarta</strong> pays by the bus kilometer, this would save 700 bus kilometers per<br />

day and make it possible to use 15 less drivers. It would increase headways at the<br />

terminals by 1.5 minutes.<br />

When Corridor II opens, <strong>TransJakarta</strong> would be similarly well advised to make several<br />

additional adjustments. For example, some buses in the Pulo Gadung to Blok M corridor<br />

might turn around at Senayan.<br />

I. 6. Institutional Issues with <strong>TransJakarta</strong><br />

I.6.a. Improve technical decision making<br />

While <strong>TransJakarta</strong> is working well, physical design decisions significantly reduced the<br />

system’s capacity. In the future, from an institutional perspective, it is imperative that the<br />

Governor empower someone with sufficient technical grounding in Bus Rapid Transit<br />

system design to make the final decisions on design and routing in future corridors.<br />

This could be done either by giving a technical person outside of the transportation<br />

agency (DisHub) veto-power over DisHub’s final designs, by improving the technical<br />

understanding of the leadership at DisHub, or by transferring the planning powers to<br />

<strong>TransJakarta</strong>. Any of these actions would still be insufficient to ensure good technical<br />

outcomes.<br />

In our opinion, the best scenario to improve operating efficiency at <strong>TransJakarta</strong> would<br />

be to change <strong>TransJakarta</strong> from a BP to a PT, a publicly-owned company. <strong>TransJakarta</strong><br />

ideally would have a Board of Directors chaired by the Governor, with representation by<br />

the Managing director of <strong>TransJakarta</strong>, ,the City Planning office, the Office of Landscape<br />

Architecture, Transportation (DisHub), and Public Works. If the national government<br />

becomes involved in financing future <strong>TransJakarta</strong> corridors, representatives of the<br />

Final Recommendations <strong>for</strong> <strong>TransJakarta</strong>, p. 13

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