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Strengthening the Role of Public Transport

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Transport Development in Asian Megacities

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Public transport plays undisputable importance and role in Asian megacities: on its own rights as basic modes for the majority of users with minimum economic, social, and environmental cost. As discussed in Chap. 5, the strategic role for public transport is to complement policies targeted for better road traffic mobility. That is, public transport is indispensable to ensure smooth mobility of road traffic—interest of private mode. This is mainly due to the limited road infrastructure in Asian megacities for impending travel demand. This also makes the apparent dichotomy of private mode versus public mode disappear. As such, we need to explore for more effective framework that offers complementary role of both private and public modes.

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  1. Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Danang Parikesit

  2. Ministry of Transportation, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Bambang Susantono

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  1. for Policy Studies GRIPS, Policy Research Center, National Graduate Institute, Roppongi, Minato-ku 7-22-1, Tokyo, 106-8677, Japan

    Shigeru Morichi

  2. (ITPS), Institute for Transport Policy Studies, Toranomon,Minato-ku 3-18-19, Tokyo, 105-0001, Japan

    Surya Raj Acharya

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Parikesit, D., Susantono, B. (2012). Strengthening the Role of Public Transport. In: Morichi, S., Acharya, S. (eds) Transport Development in Asian Megacities. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29743-4_6

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