Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia’s busoperator Transjakarta has made the city’s public transportation history forachieving its goal of serving one million passengers in a day.
According to Transjakarta spokeswoman NadiaDiposanjoyo, the bus system served 1,006,579 customers on February 4, up froman average of 987,583 people per day from the previous week.
She said the record was made thanks to the JakLingko Angkot (public minivan) service launched by the city, whichwas integrated with Transjakarta services.
Jak Lingko Angkot is serving averagely 257,981 passengerson a daily basis, she noted.
Transjakarta is focusing on developing anindependent transportation programme. It has begun to implementway-finding systems and Tap On Bus payment devices in its non-bus rapid transit(non-BRT) fleet.
It operates two kinds of buses: the BRT fleet,which runs in a dedicated corridor and the non-BRT fleet running outside thespecial corridor.
The company has prepared a long-term corporateplan focusing on four main targets to be achieved in the next five to 10 years,which are increasing ridership, fleet services, infrastructure, and non-ticketrevenue.
Jakarta won an honorable mention award from theSustainable Award Committee (STA) in January for its efforts to sustainablydevelop transportation in the city. The award was given for Transjakarta’sincreasing number of passengers, up 200 percent in less than 3 years./.
VNA