Jakarta to Start Automated Toll-Paying System in July
By Jakarta Globe on 04:50 pm Apr 24, 2014
Tags: Indonesia toll
roads
Jakarta.
The Jakarta government plans to start a trial run on an automated toll-paying
system, known as the Electronic Road Pricing system, in July in a bid to ease
congestion on the city’s streets.
“In
June the equipment, the on-board unit [OBU], will be distributed for the
trial,” Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama was quoted as saying by
state-run Antara news agency at city hall on Wednesday. “The live trial will be
implemented in July 2014.”
OBU,
the censor device to be placed on a car’s windshield, will be automatically
linked to the bank account of the car’s owner. When the car passes through the
ERP gate, money in the account will be deducted automatically.
Basuki,
popularly known as Ahok, said that at the start of the ERP system, a car that
passes along Jalan Sudirman and Jalan M.H. Thamrin would have to pay Rp 20,000
($1.75). There will be four entrance gates, one of which will be located in
front of Ratu Plaza, on Jalan Sudirman.
“If
the tariff is set at Rp 20,000 and many people are stilling use their own car,
we will raise the price. The system is meant to ease traffic, mostly caused by
four-wheeled vehicles.”
The
trial would be managed by Swedish company Kapsch, which will install OBU on 30
to 40 cars.
“There’s
no cost that we have to pay, it’s free,” Basuki said. “If we agree to cooperate
with Kapsch, they will cooperate with one of the Jakarta-owned enterprises to
apply the ERP technology in Jakarta.”
If
the system has been fully implemented, cars that have no OBU but still pass
through the ERP streets would be issued a traffic ticket. The ticket will be
sent to the home of the car’s owner.
Aside
from Kapsch, four other companies — Q-Free, Mitsubishi, IBM and Schneider —
have shown interest in joining the project, according to Muhammad Akbar, who is
head of the Jakarta Transportation Agency.
“We
haven’t decided which companies we’ll be working with. The most important thing
is the trial, which will be evaluated later. We don’t know yet how long the
trial will be,” Akbar said.
If
the system works well on the first corridor, the government would implement the
same system on the second corridor — on streets that connect Harmoni, in
Central Jakarta, to Pulogadung, East Jakarta.
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MY COMMENT
My opinion, this system is an excellent idea and brilliant.
because it does not require a long time to wait in line to pay the toll. but I
think this system would be difficult to apply in Indonesia. and
I just do not see this working. In civilized
countries where people actually follow the law and fear of law enforcement by
the police, this could work. In Indonesia, most people will only drive as
usual. How could they know who do not have this unit and then even if they send
the owner the bill, what will force them to pay. How to cars from outside
Jakarta ? People from the villages did not know about this system.
On
the other side, I still
questions if the system is
really implemented.
With the implementation of this system will be result a loss of employment. the role of humans as a highway
guard booth will be replaced by machine
automatic electronic (ERP
system). moreover, with this system
will be the possibility of technical errors that
could lead to the
loss of existence Toll-Paying Automated
System.
