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When the Train Finally Comes: Impact of New Transit Opening on Urban Kampung Residents’ Personal Motorized Vehicle Use

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: We estimate the impact of the opening of Indonesia’s first subway– the MRT Jakarta – on urban kampung residents’ personal motorized vehicle use. We employed a quasi-experimental approach through a two-wave panel survey. We assigned residents living within the designated TOD boundaries into a treatment group and those living farther away into a control group. Using difference-in-differences models, we find insignificant effects of the MRT Jakarta opening where treatment respondents logged 7.5 fewer weekly vehicle kilometers traveled than control counterparts. There was no substantial difference in the respondents’ self-assessed travel habits between treatment and control groups.

Source: Findings

DOI: 10.32866/001c.30159

Authors: Alyas Abibawa Widita, Dyah Titisari Widyastuti, Ikaputra

Institutions: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Monash University, Indonesia

Language: English

Topic: Transportation Planning and Optimization

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $100