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e. improving parking system by gradually removing on street parking to increase the comfort of
road users (especially pedestrians) and to ease road congestion, promoting off street parking and
park and ride system;
f. developing an effective and efficient freight transport system by providing freight terminals to
support industrial estates and export-import activities;
g. improving the integration of water, air, and land transport systems;
h. integrating local, regional, national, and international transport systems;
i. developing international-scale port infrastructure.
Jakarta Transportation Master Plan 2007-2020
Jakarta Transportation Master Plan, or mostly called Pola Transportasi Makro (PTM) , outlines the
general direction of transportation development and synchronises transport plans of each city and
regency in Jabodetabek. PTM recognises the complexity of transport problems in Jakarta in terms of
quality and quantity, and that a careful planning is needed in order to anticipate the increase of
transport demand in the future. Transport problems of Jakarta are reflected by severe and persisted
traffic congestion on almost all arterial roads, low quality public transport, and non-optimal and un-
integrated supporting system (bus terminals, train stations, seaport, airport, and road and toll-road
network).
Therefore, three main strategies (shown in the figure below) were developed in PTM to address these
problems:
1) Public transport development, which focuses on:
a. Improving rail-based mass transit by starting the construction of MRT, revitalising KRL and
planning rail service to the airport.
b. Developing Light Rail Transit (LRT) and monorail; LRT is currently at the initial stage of
construction while monorail plan is in the meantime already cancelled.
c. Improving TransJakarta busway by finishing the planned 15 corridors (12 corridors are
currently in operation), operating busway feeders, operating TransJakarta Integrated Border
Transport, and managing other road based public transport modes.
d. Improving waterways to be used as transport mode integrated with road-based public
transport modes.
2) Traffic restraint, which focuses on:
a. Motorized vehicles restriction, by implementing among others, 3 in 1 policy (minimum 3
occupants per car) in certain areas and at certain time and forbiddingmotorcycles to entering
Central Business District areas.
b. Electronic Road Pricing, a congestion charge applied to private vehicles on certain roads at
certain time which currently being prepared to replace the 3 in 1 policy.
c. Parking restraint.
3) Road network capacity extension, which focuses on:
a. Provision of Park and Ride facilities at public transport nodes.
b. Extending road network capacity by extending the current network and constructing flyover
and underpasses.
c. Promoting pedestrianisation/non-motorized vehicles by providing pedestrian walkways.
d. Automatic Traffic Control System (ATCS) and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) to
integrate road traffic and BRT system effectively and efficiently.