Bandung, West Java, Indonesia


Project Name: BRT and Modal Integration Planning and Capacity Building in Bandung

Duration
December 2021 to November 2022
Client
GOPA Infra GmbH for GIZ
Project Features
GIZ through the Indobus program is providing ongoing technical input for BRT systems in multiple cities including the West Java provincial capital of Bandung. As of August 2022 the Bandung BRT has been approved by the World Bank Board and the Indonesian Ministry of Transrport for implementation. According to the World Bank, "The BRT corridor has 17.23 km of segregated lanes and 3km of mixed traffic. BRT lanes are mostly curbside."
Far East Mobility Role
Far East Mobility for GOPA and GIZ under the highly influential Indobus program was the technical lead on the BRT design and also carried out the operational planning in Bandung. The project in 2022 involves intermittent input follow-up BRT planning and design building on the Feasibility Study produced primarily in 2020. Key tasks include surveys and data collection, BRT operational planning (especially the minibus or angkot sector impacts), capacity building, traffic impacts, and modal integration planning and design. A particular challenge in Bandung is that the BRT stations, corridors and routes proposed in the 2020 FS were heavily modified by subsequent consultants in 2021 not well aware of the local context and these modified BRT stations, corridors and routes have now been approved for implementation, with the resulting BRT system now consisting mainly of low capacity kerbside BRT lanes and stations without overtaking lanes and possibly without pre-board fare collection.
Updated: 11/08/2022

Project Name: Bandung Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study

Duration
December 2019 to December 2020
Client
GOPA Infra GmbH for GIZ
Project Features
The project was to complete a BRT feasibility study in Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java and Indonesia’s third largest city, providing a basis for engineering design and possible commencement of construction of BRT systems in 2021 and operation in 2023. The proposed BRT corridor is 25km long and provides access to the central downtown area and major corridors in the south and east. The project includes financial & economic analysis and institutional & regulatory recommendations as well as the BRT planning and design.
Far East Mobility Role

Far East Mobility through a team of six experts led the key aspects of the BRT planning and design including the following:

  1. Surveys and data collection.
  2. BRT corridor selection.
  3. BRT station planning & design.
  4. BRT operational plan.
  5. Infrastructure cost estimates.
  6. Implementation schedules.
  7. Parking and pedestrian facility improvements.
  8. Transit-oriented development (TOD) and station area planning.
  9. Traffic impact analysis, intersections and traffic circulation planning.
  10. Stakeholder consultation and visualizations.
  11. Utilities planning.
  12. CAD, cross-sections and land acquisition.
  13. Coordination of other experts.
  14. Capacity building.
Updated: 28/12/2020

Project Name: Renderings and Visualizations for Bandung BRT

Duration
February 2020 to June 2020
Client
GIZ China office (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), Frankfurt, Germany
Project Features
The Indobus program is part of a wider framework which under which GIZ is assisting the Government of Indonesia develop and implement NAMAs or nationally appropriate mitigation actions to reduce GHG emissions. This includes support for BRT planning in multiple Indonesian cities, including a BRT Feasibility Study in Bandung, building on a pre-feasibility study produced in 2019. (Far East Mobility led the BRT planning and design component of both the pre-FS and the FS.)
Far East Mobility Role

Far East Mobility’s expert pool team in GIZ’s Indobus BRT planning project did not include our in-house rendering, visuals and communication expert. High quality visuals which also accurately display the BRT and roadway characteristics are an extremely important part of any BRT project. GIZ through the China office provided a small additional contract for Far East Mobility’s in-house rendering expert to produce a range of renderings covering the central area of Bandung.

The resulting renderings, produced primarily in Sketchup and Photoshop, were used at prominent seminars and as part of the Ministry of Transport’s presentation materials at national government level meetings. In addition, two photo-realistic 3D Max renderings were produced working with a local rendering company.

Updated: 28/12/2020