City to partner with local delivery tracking app Go-Jek.
Jakarta’s public bus operator TransJakarta will develop a mobile app for people to track the arrival times of buses at bus stops.
The app will allow people to track the location of bus drivers and estimate when buses will arrive at the bus stops, said Steve Kosasih, CEO of TransJakarta.
The city will work with the makers of a popular delivery tracking app, Go-Jek, and will use the same system for the bus app. Go-Jek allows people to track the location of their deliveries through the GPS on the drivers’ smartphones.
“Passengers can’t get the [exact] arrival time of the buses, but at least they can predict it,” said Kosasih.
Commuters will also be able to rate and share feedback with TransJakarta on individual drivers through the app. “We often receive complaints of reckless driving but it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact driver,” Kosasih said.
This app will be part of the Jakarta’s wider Smart City implementation, Governor Basuk Tjahaja Purnama added. “This will be part of our Smart City programme. The application can later be viewed online as well [at] smartcity.jakarta.go.id.”
This will add to the two other services launched under the programme - Qlue, an app which allows people to file complaints on municipal services, and petajakarta.org, which tracks tweets related to flooding in the city.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 24.02.2015
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