There Are 21 Electronic Cameras On The Toll Road To Monitor The Odd Even Homecoming System

JAKARTA - The National Police Korlantas will optimize surveillance through electronic ticketing cameras (ETLE) to help oversee the implementation of odd-even times during the homecoming and Eid 2022 return flows on toll roads.

"We have installed ETLE (CCTV) cameras, there are 21 cameras that we have set to monitor odd-even. So (the gage) is still being monitored by cameras," said Dirgakum for the National Police, Brigadier General Pol Aan Surhanan at the FMB9 event entitled Safe Homecoming Healthy Homecoming discussion, Monday, April 18, quoted from Antara.

The Police have also prepared traffic engineering to break up congestion during Lebaran 2022 homecoming in the form of odd-even and one-way systems on toll roads starting from Km 47 Cikampek Toll Gate to Km 414 Kalikangkung Toll Gate, Semarang.

This odd-even and one-way system applies on the peak date of the homecoming flow from April 28 to May 1. Then the reverse flow from May 6 to May 9.

“The gage that we are doing is applied to sections that do one way. Thursday, April 28, we are one way from 17.00 to 24.00 WIB starting from Km 47 of the Jakarta Cikampek Toll Road to Kalikangkung. In that section, a gage is applied, this reduces 50 percent of the people who will travel through this toll road,” said Aan.

In addition to toll roads, odd and even numbers are also enforced at tourist spots by the local government. This policy is applied situationally when the tourist route experiences traffic congestion.

The government predicts that around 79.4 million people will go home, 40 million of whom choose to use private vehicles, both four-wheeled and two-wheeled.

For four-wheeled vehicles, it is estimated that 26 million vehicles choose to use toll roads, while motorbikes use arterial roads.

According to Aan, it is estimated that there will be a surge in the use of toll roads during the homecoming period. Based on observations on weekends during peak hours, there are around 67,000 to 73,000 vehicles crossing the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road in one day. Jasa Marga estimates that there may be an increase of 10 percent or around 199 thousand vehicles at peak flow and 187,000 vehicles going home.

"This means that on April 28 and 29, there will be around 197,000 to 199 thousand vehicles on the toll roads," said Aan.

He said the National Police intervened in the form of police discretion to prevent congestion in the form of increasing road capacity by enforcing counter-flow and one-way systems. In addition, the National Police also opened the eastern route as wide as possible from four lanes to eight lanes.

Separately, the Head of the Public Information Section (Kabag Penum) of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Kombes Pol. Gatot Repli Handoko, said that when there was a build-up of vehicles, one-way, odd-even traffic would be applied.

Vehicles that have odd plates when departing on an even date will be removed from the lane, cannot enter.

"Until now there has been no traffic ticket, until now there has been no traffic information, so it is directed to the national route," said Gatot as well.