Microtransit Service as an Innovative Countermeasure for the Tangled Urban Transportation Issues in Emerging Economies

In urban areas in emerging Asian economies, motorization fueled by rapid economic growth is causing severe traffic congestion. While some cities are taking various measures such as rail-based transit, it often takes time to develop a dense transit network. On the other hand, conventional paratransit services in these countries, which usually utilize a vehicle with 8 . 15 passenger capacity, are losing market share. In the developed countries, a new transit service sometimes called a “Microtransit Service,” with flexible routes and on-demand scheduling functions based on smartphone applications is emerging in some metropolitan areas. Taking these backgrounds into consideration, this paper reveals 1) potential demand for microtransit services and the estimated impact of microtransit services in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area; and 2) the merits of microtransit services from an operational perspective in a route in Bogor city, which is located in this metropolitan area.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.11175/easts.12.2133
• Record URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Microtransit%20Service%20as%20an%20Innovative%20Countermeasure%20for%20the%20Tangled%20Urban%20Transportation%20Issues%20in%20Emerging%20Economies%20.&author=H.%20KAWAGUCHI&author=Y.%20TSUMURA&author=M.%20DANNO&author=M.%20KUWAHARA&publication_year=2017
• Authors:
  • Kawaguchi, Hirohisa
  • Tsumura, Yuma
  • DANNO, Mikio
  • KUWAHARA, Masahiro
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 2133-2150
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
  • EISSN: 1881-1124
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/easts/-char/en
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic factors; Economic growth; Metropolitan areas; Paratransit services; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Jakarta (Indonesia)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01674955
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Jul 11 2018 3:40PM