Jakarta’s insufferable congestion problems are legendary. The city is ranked 10th worst in the world by the traffic Index and drivers lost an average of 123 hours a year to sitting in jams, according to Tomtom.
Clearly, the situation must change. Building more roads and highways is unsustainable. Applying a properly thought-out Travel/Transport Demand Management (TDM) could be the way out.
There are many ways to implement a Travel Demand Management strategy, including parking management, progressive vehicle taxes and other tax incentives, tighter regulations on vehicle ownership, transportation cost compensation, changing work hours, reducing the number of working days, teleworking, implementing restricted traffic corridors and restricted areas, ridesharing (carpool/vanpool), priority and promotion for public transport, better transport integration and applying mass transit-oriented development.
