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KCI aims to serve 1.5 million passengers per day in 2020
As of October, the commuter line had reached 81.13 percent of its 2019 target by serving 278,706,794 passengers, or an average of 916,799 passengers per day.
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A commuter train stops at Cisauk Station, Tangerang in this undated file photo. PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI), which operates the commuter line, plans to add more trips, trains and tracks in order to serve 1.5 million passengers per day in 2020.
(The Jakarta Post/Dhoni Setiawan)
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erving as the backbone of railway transportation in Greater Jakarta, PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI), which operates the commuter line, plans to add more trips, trains and tracks in order to serve 1.5 million passengers per day in 2020.
In a discussion held last Friday, KCI president director Wiwik Widayanti said the company currently served up to 1 million passengers on 958 trips every day.
“Starting in December, we will provide 1,057 trips per day with 90 loops. We will also increase our capacity by gradually phasing out SF8 trains and adding more SF10 and SF12,” she told the press.
SF8, SF10 and SF12 are trains with eight, 10 and 12 cars, respectively. New trains will keep coming from Japanese train manufacturer JR East, with which the KCI has been bound to a train procurement partnership since 2018.
“With more trips and more SF10 and SF12 trains, not only will we be able to shorten our headways, we can also improve comfort because the train cars will be less cramped, particularly during rush hours,” she added.
The plan, according to Wiwik, is stipulated in the 2019 Train Route Graphics (Gapeka), which should be implemented starting from December this year by all operators under state-owned PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) -- including KCI as one of KAI’s subsidiaries.
The 2019 Gapeka was issued by the Transportation Ministry’s Railway Directorate General through Ministerial Decree No. KP.1781/2019.
