Tomorrow is the last night in 2022. The Ministry of Transportation predicts that the movement of people during the 2023 New Year’s Holiday will exceed the 2022 Christmas period. However, the density point will be more concentrated in agglomeration areas.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Transportation Adita Irawati said that her ministry is ready to face the peak flow of homecoming and returning for the new year’s holiday. According to her, there will be different patterns of movement at Christmas and New Year.
Adita predicts that the New Year holidays will tend to be shorter so local holidays are predicted to increase. For this reason, the agglomeration area will become the center of community movement.
“It is estimated that the community movement will be bigger than Christmas, especially movements in agglomeration areas such as Jabodetabek, Joglosemar, and others,” he said via text message, Thursday (29/12/2022).
During the 2022 Christmas holiday period, as many as 3.9 million people traveled by public transport for the four days until the peak of Christmas.
In the new year, this figure is predicted to be even greater. Therefore, anticipation is prepared specially by carrying out situational traffic engineering depending on conditions in the field.
For example, contra flow, one-way, or even odd. Not only in road transportation, but crossing modes are also in the spotlight. Moreover, when there is extreme weather during this year-end holiday period.
At the peak of Christmas 2022, Friday (23/12/2022), PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero) noted that there were 53,344 passengers and 11,828 vehicles crossing from Merak Port to Bakauheni Port.
In contrast, there were 38,116 passengers and 8,662 vehicles crossing from Bakauheni Port to Merak Port.
