Transjakarta Busway

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Transjakarta Busway

• Heru Sutomo, PUSTRAL

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Appraisal

• No standardised CBA (cost benefit anal)
• Foreign funding requires CBA, Local does not!
• Even when choosing from alternatives
• Best project selected intuitively
• Private projects excepted

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Evaluation

• No evaluation required, may be a completion
  report
• Most cases completion report and as built drawing
  not available
• Never learn benefits impacts of a project
• Foreign funding requires PBME (proj benefit
  monitoring evaluation)
• A project may be funded from local or foreign
  money

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Brief Story of Jakarta Busway

• Patronage down from 45- 37 90s
• Awaiting some mass transport means
• Commissioned mid 2002 for a new bus system
  awaiting MRT
• Interactive, participative process
• Led and guarded by vice governor
• 2-weekly regular consultation with different
  parties

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Intensive interaction

• Little money for the project, use meetings in
  vice governor meeting room
• Consistent ways to convince that new system will
  be completely new system
• Priority, exclusive lane
• Operating under government control

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Intensive interaction

• 6 month debate to choose left-lane or middle lane
• Competition on bus stop design (41 entries)
• End of 2001 introduced to international
  community ITDP picked up and support Penalosa
• Feb 2002- confirmed by governor
• Mar 2002- confirmed by legislator funding

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Intensive interaction

• Feb 2003 trip to Bogota (ITDP)
• Bus prepared 54
• Mid 2003Preparation infrastructure
• Public consultation Pelangi 2003/04
• Launching 15 Jan 2004 (line 1 13km)
• Pass 30,000/day early, 2004 70,000/day
• 1st year running deficit Rp 38 billion
• 2nd year running BEP expected

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Organization

• Run by Trans Jakarta Operating body
• Buses owned by gov
• Private supply drivers, maintenance, tickets
• Revenues go to gov. revenue, operating costs paid
  using local budget
• Line 2 3 (31km), all provided by private
• Soft launch end Dec 2005
• 2006 Line 4, 5, 6 tendering system