The capital of Indonesia, the capital of Jakarta, is a couple of thousands of blue and white minibus, scattered amidst some driving traffic. They travel to the corner of the city, carrying up to the endless stream of those who are more closed without worrying about parking problems.
The network is an important part of the answer to a major problem of this 11 million-strong megacity. Very more motorized traffic.
Jakarta is not alone. Globally, about two million people are killed every year on air pollution and road caused by cars, vans and motorbikes on the road, and combination engine vehicles cause climate change for about 10% of global carbon emissions.
For decades, the increase in traffic is to manufacture more lanes, flyovers and parking. But it only attracts more ability to more cars and crowds.
Now in the bid for safe, disintegrated roads and cleaner air, some cities and countries are trying to dig cars in favor of public transport to their citizens. Their approaches are diverse like results.
How seductive is free public transport?
Some cities, search as the Estonian capital Telin, have been chosen for a simple solution. In a 2012 referendum, the residents of the city, about half a million, voted for the locals to free the trains, trams and buses. Since 2013, the cost of public transport has fallen to the city government, to the tune of € 40 ($ 45) annually – with mixed results, with mixed results, non -profit research group, a permanent city researcher with Stockholm Environmental Institute, according to Marlin Rehma, a permanent city researcher.
Rehma said, “The ridership has dramatically declined, like 30%from 42%,” REMA said, the use of the car has increased by about 5%. “Those who were using public transport are now using it more often. And to some extent, short walking and bicycle trips that bus trips.”
Luxembourg, the island of Malta and other places as the American city of Canasus City-have rented their public transportation by reporting such results. The researcher’s specialty is that it is for Kovid-A-Restraces, but it is not all in playing.
For automobile love
Pete Dyson, a practical scientist at the UK Bath University, says that decisions come into psychology about how people choose to travel.
“When people look at the psychological aspects of car ownership, they look at the field of situation and pride,” Dyson said, cars are not delayed and crowded buses in meeting a fundamental human need for safety and comfort.
He says that this requirement can be addressed by giving priority to buses on cars to make the journey smooth, time of time, and more reliable. And by creating public transport “a safe environment, a more comfortable environment”.
Ensuring other benefits such as “access to seat or table, or the ability to do useful or meaningful things” also helps wood.
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Bus ride with transgecarta
In this way things are moving forward in Jakarta. Buses are air -conditioned, a separate seating space for women, and employees are at hand for any help and information necessary. Painted buses are only women. The cost of each trip is equal to € 0.20.
About 10% of the trips in the city are currently made by bus and train, a number that the government wants to increase the number of that number by 2030. But car and motorcycle traffic are increasing.
Gonggomtua Sitangang, director of South-East Asia of Non-Gold Institutions Transport and Development Policy, said, “The major challenge here, or the major homework here, is to push people to use public transport.”
So far, Jakarta has established that the bus is known as the Rapid Transit (BRT) system, which rebuilt the existing lane to make 14 bus-cave corridors. The Transjarta network, as it is called, covers 250 kilometers or 155 miles and is connected to 2,200 blue and white minibus that can occur within 500 meters of most places across the city.
“And thesis is free to encourage minibus people to use public transport,” SITANGGAG said, thus and final-meal connectivity is imported into creative transport.
Discourage car ownership
Some cities are taking a different approach and trying to make driving less attractive, searching through levy. From this year, car owners in Estonia will have to pay both an initial registration angel and an annual vehicle tax.
Meanwhile, London established a contrast charge zone with a car traffic fall and the use of bus and tube.
But Marilyn Rehema says there are other ways to disintegrate driving, “Find to really designing your cities in favor of public transport use.”
This is what Paris is removing thousands of parking lots, closing the entire roads for cars and tripping the parking fee for large and polluting SUVs.
Jakarta Dukuh starts re -designing the infrastructure in the central region of Atas, which has been tens of thousands of parking locations, but sit in a major public transport center with bus and rail connections.
“We begin by improving connectivity, pedestrians and cycling features, and then we develop a strategy to reduce the parking space with the region,” said.
Even cities that cannot quickly change the infrastructure, they can take action, Dyson said. “Some quick improvement routes for an existing network will improve the quality of information about the routes and make the tickets and fare simplified.”
Edited by: Jennifer Colins, Tamsin Walker
