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Jakarta to Start Automated Toll-Paying System in July

By Jakarta Globe on 04:50 pm Apr 24, 2014
Category Automotive, Jakarta, News

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.
Sumber :
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/jakarta/jakarta-start-automated-toll-paying-system-july/


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.

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