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the greatest flexibility in terms of changing bus routes and services to maximize the
efficiency of the system, and it provides TransJakarta with the greatest flexibility in terms
of rewarding and punishing private operators for bad quality of service.
Finally, TransJakarta needs to decide what to do with the 90 buses that they own.
Because it should not be the business of TransJakarta to own and operate buses,
TransJakarta should transfer these assets to private bus operating companies as part of the
competitive bidding process.
Four operating contracts should be enough for Corridors I, II, and III. They would be
signed with four different operating companies. According to our preliminary estimates,
with the current TransJakarta routing for Corridor II and III, TransJakarta will be able to
satisfy the initial demand with 163 buses. As TransJakarta already has 90 buses, they
only need 73 additional buses.
In our opinion, all of the 73 new buses to be procured should be articulated buses with a
minimum of two doors but preferably with four doors. In our opinion, all of the existing
90 buses need to be reconstructed to have two doors, or sold and replaced with two –
door buses.
II.3.c. Recommendations for Contracting out Trunk Line Operations
In our opinion TransJakarta should competitively bid the operations within all three
corridors to the top four operating companies. These operating companies would be
promised a minimum number of operating kilometers in exchange for promising to
providing the service and meeting minimum service standards. The competitive bidding
requirements should be primarily based on the minimum cost per kilometer that the bus
operating companies are willing to provide the service for a period of 8 years. Each
operating company should make this bid based on the assumption that they will have to
procure new articulated buses. The bid should also be based on the assumption that each
operating company would take ownership of 23 of the existing TransJakarta buses.
These existing buses they would either have to reconstruct to have two doors per bus, (we
estimate at a cost of roughly $10,000 per bus) or they could sell these buses and buy new
two door buses. These contracts should then be signed between the operating companies
and a newly incorporated PT TransJakarta.
II.4. TransJakarta Feeder Bus Operations
Currently, TransJakarta is perhaps the only closed-station BRT system in the world
operating without a functioning feeder bus system. To be a feeder bus, normally there is
either a discount to transfer onto the trunk line, or else the transfer is free.
There is a new system of three express buses that take passengers from some outer
suburban areas (Bintaro and two other locations), directly to the TransJakarta corridor
non-stop. These buses are privately operated under authorization from DisHub, and are
Final Recommendations for TransJakarta, p. 39