Jakarta World's 30th Most Congested City, DKI Transportation Agency: Improved

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JAKARTA - GPS device company Tomtom released the results of a survey of congestion in a number of cities in the world as of 2023. As a result, Jakarta is now ranked the 30th most congested city in the world.

This ranking has decreased by one point from 2022, where Jakarta is in the 29th position of the world's most congested city.

Responding to this, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency saw that traffic performance conditions in Jakarta were starting to improve. Given, Jakarta was once in the top 10 most congested cities in the world in 2019.

"Yes, it's getting better, right, from (ranked) 29 to 30," said Syafrin at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Monday, January 15.

Syafrin did not deny that traffic jams in Jakarta were still happening. However, he claims the government continues to make improvements, ranging from the construction of the next phase of the LRT and MRT, to traffic engineering.

"Jakarta continues to make improvements. Traffic management and engineering were carried out, including last year the closure of 31 U-turn 31 and 7 roads was implemented by SSA (one-way system), and there were also 20 traffic light operations that had implemented the intelligence transport system," explained Anies.

"This is of course an improvement. We hope that in the future, this year it will be even more massive in improving traffic performance," he continued.

Judging from its official website, Tomtom Traffic Index data presentation stated that during 2023, Jakarta was ranked 30 out of a total of 387 cities in 55 countries in the world.

Meanwhile, previously Jakarta was ranked 29th in 2022, ranked 46th in 2021, ranked 31st in 2020, and was once in the top 10 most congested cities in 2019.

Tomton revealed that the average travel time for trips per 10 kilometers in Jakarta in 2022 will reach 23 minutes 20 seconds. The time interval per 10 kilometers increases by 40 seconds from 2022.

Throughout 2022, the most congested day for mobility in Jakarta occurred on Thursday. March 9, 2023. At that time, the average travel time for driving per 10 kilometers reached 30 minutes 10 seconds.

On average in one year, motorists in Jakatra have spent 225 hours, of which 117 hours are spent in traffic jams.