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Transportation Ministry to focus research on infrastructure
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Public minivans wait to depart Pulogebang terminal in East Jakarta on Dec. 22. (Antara /Wahyu Putro A)
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he Transportation Ministry’s research and development department’s program for next year will mostly touch on the feasibility and quality of Indonesia’s transportation infrastructure with hopes that results would positively impact the ministry’s policies.
A standout topic for the research and development department this year was intermodal transportation studies, which aim to see if specific locations are able to handle integrated transportation systems.
Research and development department director Agus Santoso elaborated that there were 21 such studies carried out in that field, like the one that studied the feasibility of an integrated railway system at the Makassar New Port to increase efficiency or the master plan to integrate the railway system to Surabaya’s Juanda International Airport.
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“Improvement toward efficiency is the result that we ended up with in most of our studies on intermodal transportation. The ultimate goal is to have a place where all transportation systems are integrated: buses, trains, ships and airplanes. We can only hope,” Agus commented on Wednesday.
He also expressed hope that the results from the intermodal studies would be adopted by the ministry as considerations for the year ahead, as his department will continue carrying out intermodal transportation studies next year. (evi)
