TY - JOUR
T1 - Life in the slow lane
T2 - Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta
AU - Gaduh, Arya
AU - Gračner, Tadeja
AU - Rothenberg, Alexander D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Bryan Graham, Edward Miguel, Paul J. Gertler, Sylvia J. Radford, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at the DC Urban Economics Day 2017, Syracuse University, University of Richmond, UC Irvine, University of Georgia, the Urban Institute, Urban Economics Association Conference (Columbia), NEUDC (Cornell), Cities and Development Conference (Harvard), Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (Singapore Management University), AREUEA-ASSA Conference, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference (World Bank), the University at Buffalo, and the ASSA 2021 conference for helpful suggestions. This project was partially funded by financial support from RAND's Center for Asia and Pacific Policy. Cole Sutera and Yao Wang provided excellent research assistance. All errors remain our own. A previous version of this paper circulated under the title “Improving Mobility in Developing Country Cities: Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit and Other Policies in Jakarta.”
Funding Information:
We thank Bryan Graham, Edward Miguel, Paul J. Gertler, Sylvia J. Radford, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at the DC Urban Economics Day 2017, Syracuse University, University of Richmond, UC Irvine, University of Georgia, the Urban Institute, Urban Economics Association Conference (Columbia), NEUDC (Cornell), Cities and Development Conference (Harvard), Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (Singapore Management University), AREUEA-ASSA Conference, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Research Conference (World Bank), the University at Buffalo, and the ASSA 2021 conference for helpful suggestions. This project was partially funded by financial support from RAND’s Center for Asia and Pacific Policy. Cole Sutera and Yao Wang provided excellent research assistance. All errors remain our own. A previous version of this paper circulated under the title “Improving Mobility in Developing Country Cities: Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit and Other Policies in Jakarta.”
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - We study how TransJakarta, one of the worlds largest BRT systems, impacted commuting outcomes in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2002 to 2010. Using planned lines for identification, we find that BRT station proximity neither reduced vehicle ownership nor travel times, and it did not increase commuter flows. Instead, the BRT exacerbated congestion along service corridors. To evaluate welfare effects, we calibrate a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model with multiple congestible transport networks. Counterfactual simulations suggest that implementation improvements, including increasing the quality of expansion corridors, would significantly improve welfare with only modest costs.
AB - We study how TransJakarta, one of the worlds largest BRT systems, impacted commuting outcomes in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2002 to 2010. Using planned lines for identification, we find that BRT station proximity neither reduced vehicle ownership nor travel times, and it did not increase commuter flows. Instead, the BRT exacerbated congestion along service corridors. To evaluate welfare effects, we calibrate a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model with multiple congestible transport networks. Counterfactual simulations suggest that implementation improvements, including increasing the quality of expansion corridors, would significantly improve welfare with only modest costs.
KW - Commuting
KW - Congestion
KW - Public transit
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jue.2021.103411
DO - 10.1016/j.jue.2021.103411
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119445092
SN - 0094-1190
VL - 128
JO - Journal of Urban Economics
JF - Journal of Urban Economics
M1 - 103411
ER -