Transportation experts say that building new toll roads is not the proper solution for the country’s growing logistics problems.
“The development of new toll roads will only add more gridlock based on our simulations,” Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) chairwoman Eka Lorena said during a seminar on Indonesian Infrastructure Outlook 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Rasuna Said, Jakarta, on Tuesday. Eka said that the development of new roads would only encourage more people to purchase vehicles.
“In Jakarta alone, hundreds of new motorcycles and cars are purchased on a daily basis and this is the main reason why traffic jams have become more frequent,” she said. Eka was responding to a government plan proposed by the Public Works Ministry during the seminar.
Deputy Public Works Minister Hermanto Dardak said during the seminar that the government would intensify the development of new toll roads in the country to ease congestion. One of the development projects that is set to get underway is the launch of six new inner-city highways in Jakarta.
The new highway projects in Jakarta are worth Rp 40 trillion (US$4.1 billion) in total with construction set to begin in 2013. The city administration estimates that it will take at least 10 years for these projects to be completed.
By completing the highway projects, Dardak said that Jakarta would have a vertical spatial concept and would eventually be able to eradicate the gridlock.
Based on data compiled by the Infrastructure Partnership and Knowledge Center, major cities like Jakarta have suffered economic losses of trillions of rupiah due to traffic congestion. According to the data, Jakarta alone suffers at least Rp 68 trillion of losses annually due to gridlock.
Coordinating Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said that it was imperative for Indonesia to resolve its road transportation issues as soon as possible to reduce logistics costs for businesses. “As of now, the proportion of logistics in overall production costs stands at around 14 percent. We need to reduce this to at least 10 percent next year,” he said.
Hatta pushed for the development of mass transportation programs in the future as the answer to congestion in major cities throughout Indonesia.
Separately, a transportation expert from the University of Indonesia, Tri Tjahyono, said that what the government needed to do was to sit down and formulate a clear blueprint to resolve logistics and congestion issues.
“To reduce logistics costs, the government needs to establish a clear plan for a fully integrated transportation network,” Tri said. “The government has not yet been able to provide sufficient infrastructure to link factories, warehouses and distribution centers within the industrial zones,” he added.
As for congestion, Tri said that the government had already established a number of excellent mass transportation concepts but the actual implementation of them was more important. (sumber: thejakartapost).
“The development of new toll roads will only add more gridlock based on our simulations,” Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) chairwoman Eka Lorena said during a seminar on Indonesian Infrastructure Outlook 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Rasuna Said, Jakarta, on Tuesday. Eka said that the development of new roads would only encourage more people to purchase vehicles.
“In Jakarta alone, hundreds of new motorcycles and cars are purchased on a daily basis and this is the main reason why traffic jams have become more frequent,” she said. Eka was responding to a government plan proposed by the Public Works Ministry during the seminar.
Deputy Public Works Minister Hermanto Dardak said during the seminar that the government would intensify the development of new toll roads in the country to ease congestion. One of the development projects that is set to get underway is the launch of six new inner-city highways in Jakarta.
The new highway projects in Jakarta are worth Rp 40 trillion (US$4.1 billion) in total with construction set to begin in 2013. The city administration estimates that it will take at least 10 years for these projects to be completed.
By completing the highway projects, Dardak said that Jakarta would have a vertical spatial concept and would eventually be able to eradicate the gridlock.
Based on data compiled by the Infrastructure Partnership and Knowledge Center, major cities like Jakarta have suffered economic losses of trillions of rupiah due to traffic congestion. According to the data, Jakarta alone suffers at least Rp 68 trillion of losses annually due to gridlock.
Coordinating Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said that it was imperative for Indonesia to resolve its road transportation issues as soon as possible to reduce logistics costs for businesses. “As of now, the proportion of logistics in overall production costs stands at around 14 percent. We need to reduce this to at least 10 percent next year,” he said.
Hatta pushed for the development of mass transportation programs in the future as the answer to congestion in major cities throughout Indonesia.
Separately, a transportation expert from the University of Indonesia, Tri Tjahyono, said that what the government needed to do was to sit down and formulate a clear blueprint to resolve logistics and congestion issues.
“To reduce logistics costs, the government needs to establish a clear plan for a fully integrated transportation network,” Tri said. “The government has not yet been able to provide sufficient infrastructure to link factories, warehouses and distribution centers within the industrial zones,” he added.
As for congestion, Tri said that the government had already established a number of excellent mass transportation concepts but the actual implementation of them was more important. (sumber: thejakartapost).
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