To Improve Services, BPTJ Agrees To Provision Of Travel Data For Mass Transportation Passengers

The signing agreement was made at the Head Office of Perum Damri, Jakarta. (Doc. ANTARA/HO-Humas BPTJ)

JAKARTA - The Jabodetabek Transportation Management Agency (BPTJ) together with the Damri Public Company (Perum), PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI), and the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency have agreed to provide data and information on the travel of mass transport passengers in the Jabodetabek area.

The joint agreement was realized through the signing at the Perum Damri Headquarters, Jakarta.

The signing was signed by Acting Head of BPTJ Agung Raharjo, President Director of Perum Damri Setia N Milatia Moemin, Deputy Head of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Transportation Agency Syaripudin, and Director of Operations and Marketing of PT KCI Broer Rizal.

Agung in his speech as quoted from an official statement received in Jakarta, Saturday, appreciated Perum Damri for his willingness to collaborate in providing data and information on the travel of mass transport passengers in the Jabodetabek area.

He said that the One Matrix system that had been built by BPTJ and the support for passenger movement data from various integrated related institutions would be able to be used to produce the output of a very good and complete people's movement matrix.

"In the future, this can be used as material for formulating strategies and policies to improve public transportation services in the Jabodetabek area," he said, as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, October 14.

Meanwhile, the One Matrix BPTJ system is a mapping system for the origin of large data-based people that can process a large amount of data, quickly, and is able to accurately automate the data collection and analysis process.

Later, by utilizing cellular data detected by the base transceiver station (BTS), the movement of users from one zone to another can be determined in real time using the map-reduce method and the results are obtained a matrix of origin with a high level of accuracy.

Thus, One Matrix will be able to display various data such as the total number of movements, the average movement per day, the most movement average, the most busy day average to the most busy hour average.

On the same occasion, President Director of Perum Damri Setia N. Milatia Moemin said the database would be an important element to be able to make good transportation planning.

"The exchange of data and information on the travel of mass transport passengers is an important element to realize integrated movement information data. Hopefully, the programs or policies made can be right on target and according to the needs of the community and in the end more people will switch (shifting) to urban mass public transportation and leave the use of private vehicles for daily mobility," said Setia.

BPTJ stated with the support of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency which provides data on MRT Jakarta, LRT Jakarta, TransJakarta, and JakLingko and PT KCI which provide commuter line and Perum Damri data that provides TransJabodetabek data, currently the One Matrix BPTJ system is ready to be utilized by all stakeholders as material for formulating strategies and policies to improve public transportation services in the Jabodetabek area.

BPTJ also hopes that in the future more institutions will join so that a complete picture of the movement of people in Jabodetabek will be obtained.