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Railbus vs Busway - Rejuvenating Indonesia's Transportation Mode

Palembang on Thursday Feb 19,2009. Minister of Transportation Jusman Syafii Djamal commenced the first railbus operations in Indonesia. Railbus is combination between railway and light bus construction. The cost of building a railbus is much cheaper than a train with shortened production time. The railbus developed by state owned PT. INKA (Train Industry Corporation). Railbus namely Kertalaya, serves mostly college students from University of Sriwijaya who will be going to their campus in Inderalaya from Palembang. It is supposed to reduce road congestion and road accident in between Palembang to Inderalaya. Railbus speed is up to 100km/hour, faster than speed of train at 50 – 80 km/hour. Other city in Indonesia will be the next implementation. Many old trains soon will be replaced by this kind of railbus. PT. INKA has been made order from Yogyakarta as well. Yogyakarta is well known as city of students where many people from across the country studied there in College and Universities all over the city. It has also been proposed to have rail bus in Surabaya which well known also for its problematic road congestion. So, where is the future of Busway?

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