Public Transportation Becomes The Main Service Of People's Movement At IKN

The new capital city of Indonesia is in the Sepaku District, North Penajam Paser Regency. ANTARA/Good Purwa

BALIKPAPAN - Public transportation will be the main service for the movement of people and goods in the archipelago, the new capital city of the Republic of Indonesia, which will be built in Sepaku-Semoi, North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan.

The vehicles used are also environmentally friendly and do not produce emissions. In the city, electric buses, bicycles and electric bicycles will be used.

Vehicles or electric cars are also designed to run with a steering wheel by an automatic alias system without a driver. Even the length of the trip is also determined, which is a maximum of 10 minutes of travel to important city facilities from transportation nodes or terminals.

"So that everything can be very economical and efficient," said the leader of the Smart Transportation System Master Plan Development Team at IKN Resdiansyah as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, July 15.

Traffic control, whether at intersections or parking lots, or in parts where it needs to be regulated or guarded and supervised, will be done digitally and electronically, with CCTV cameras and computer calculation applications.

This includes handling traffic violations or accidents. In the system that has been applied in several countries, for example, violators of speed limits or road signs and markings can be monitored by cameras, immediately identified or recognized by the system, which can then be immediately punished with fines and sent a ticket in accordance with applicable regulations. The ticket can also be paid by transfer to a state account.

According to Resdiansyah, the intelligent traffic control system is planned to be the first ITS (intelligent transportation system) technology to be developed at IKN, especially in the Central Government Core Area (KIPP), areas where there is a state palace or presidential palace, ministry offices, institutional offices. -high state institutions, and the headquarters of the TNI and Polri.

Head of the Nusantara Capital Authority, Bambang Susantono, hopes that the smart transportation system will be able to answer future challenges at IKN to get a better quality of life.

"And in the future it can also be applied in other cities in Indonesia," said Bambang.