6 Development Goals and Strategies
Project for the Study on JABODETABEK Public Transportation Policy Implementation Strategy (JAPTraPIS) FINAL REPORT: Main Text 6 DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND STRATEGIES 6.1 Core Issues 1) The Challenges of Traffic Congestion and Decreasing Mobility Transport and mobility is a major community concern affecting the daily lives of millions of citizens in Jakarta with traffic congestion inflicting a high social and economic cost due to wasted time, increased transport cost and loss of productivity. The Transportation Ministry estimates that traffic jams cost Jakarta IDR 28.1 trillion rupiah ($3.2 billion) yearly in fuel costs, lost productivity and health costs. Traffic congestion erodes the benefits of economic growth and development. Citizen’s also raise transport as a strong area of concern, emphasizing that better solutions are needed, involving improvements to the existing public transport network, and for governments to place restrictions on car use. Congestion impacts on all sectors, in that all, ravel choices are inconvenient; cars, motorcycles, and public transport are all, in varying degrees, inconvenient, time wasting, expensive, and unsafe. Jakarta’s development also faces 21st century challenges; specifically energy cost and security; pollution and carbon emissions and increasingly limited space for car traffic. European cities are leading the way in addressing these issues and actually develop policies to make car travel more inconvenient in favour of to promoting more efficient modes such as public transport, cycling and pedestrian space. While it is necessary to have an efficient and well connected road network, building road space with the expectation to relieve traffic congestion is often counterproductive, as the extra road space is quickly absorbed by more cars and motorcycles.
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