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Transjakarta to add 200 more electric buses by year-end
The city-owned bus operator plans to expand its existing fleet by another 200 electric buses by the end of this year to achieve its target of a 50 percent electric fleet in 2027.
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Passengers board a Transjakarta Bus plying the Blok M-Kota route in this undated file photo. (Courtesy of Riand Alfiandy)
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ity-owned bus operator Transjakarta is slated to bring in around 400 new buses, including 200 electric buses, to expand its fleet by the end of this year.
Transjakarta operations and safety director Daud Joseph said adding hundreds of more buses to the company’s fleet would help it serve an additional 8,000 passengers across the city.
"Later, there will be around 100 small ‘mini’ [transit] buses and 100 medium-sized buses,” Joseph said on Sunday, as quoted by Bisnis.com.
Transjakarta is targeting the operation of 4,728 buses by the year-end, up 8.7 percent from the 4,348 buses it operated last year.
In addition, the company is aiming for electric buses to make up 50 percent of its fleet by 2027, and to achieve a 100 percent electric fleet by 2030.
Read also: Transjakarta wants 10,000 electric buses in service by 2030
Expanding fleets across the public transit system is part of the city’s solution to address air pollution, which caused an estimated 8,100 deaths and reached US$2.1 billion in losses last year, according to data from Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir.
