City Stats | transportation

When building its city, Singapore had already thought of an integrated public transportation system. After 50 years, Singapore has managed to build 200 km of MRT lines. Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta are far behind Singapore. Kuala Lumpur has 103 km of MRT lines. Even Jakarta only has 16 km of MRT lines.

When will Jakarta catch up with Singapore and Kuala Lumpur?

1. Only commuters in Jakarta spend more than 60 minutes on public transportation.

Average commute time public transport | 2019

Source: Public Transit Index, Moovit Insight 2020

2. Singapore has the best public transportation waiting time between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.

Average waiting time in public transport (average waiting time in public transport) | 2019

Source: Public Transit Index, Moovit Insight 2020

3. Commuters in Jakarta travel twice as far as commuters in Singapore.

Average commute distance by public transport (avarage commute distance by public transport) | 2019

Source: Public Transit Index, Moovit Insight 2020

4. Jakarta residents walk more than 1 km to public transportation.

Average walking distance to public transportation (average walking distance to public transport) | 2019

Notes: The maximum distance people can walk is 1 km.

Source: Public Transit Index, Moovit Insight 2020

5. The number of bus passengers in Singapore is 5 times more than Jakarta and 11 times more than Kuala Lumpur.

Number of bus passengers per month (monthly bus ridership) | 2019

Source: Source: BPS DKI Jakarta Province, 2020; Budget Direct Singapore, 2020; New Straits Times Malaysia, 2019

6. The number of public transportation passengers in Singapore exceeds its population. Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta have very few passengers.

Ratio of daily public transport ridership to population (comparison of daily public transport ridership to population) | 2019

Source: Katadata Databox, 2020; Budget Direct Singapore, 2020; New Straits Times Malaysia, 2019