Solution about Conventional vs Online Transportation

In recent years, electrified transportation has emerged as a trend to support energy efficiency and CO2emissionsreduction targets. Relative to their internal combustion vehicle (ICV) counterparts, electric vehicles (EV), be they trains, buses, or cars, have a greater “well-to-wheel” energy-efficiency. They also have the added benefit of not emitting any carbon dioxide in operation and rather shift their emissions to the existing local fleet of power generation technology.

The success of electric vehicles depends on their successful integration with the infrastructure systems that support them. From a transportation perspective, conventional electric cars typically only have a short-range of 150km but may still require several hours to charge. This affects when a vehicle can begin its journey and the route it intends to take. From an electricity perspective, the charging loads can draw large power demands which may exceed transformer ratings, cause undesirable line congestion, or voltage deviations. These loads may be further exacerbated temporally by similar charging patterns driven by similar work and travel lifestyles or geographically by the relative sparsity of charging infrastructure in high demand areas. In effect, the electric vehicles and their supporting charging infrastructure couples the transportation and electrical systems into a nexus.

Sharing economy, perhaps you lately often hear the term. In this age of accelerating technology businesses, as now, the business model of sharing economy is seen as more profitable than the conventional business model. The principle of unity that is built by the same goal making the sharing economy is often applied by many startups.

Indonesia itself has a lot of companies, especially startups build their business using the business model of sharing economy. For example, is Nebengers.com utilizes GPS technology to pick up passengers who happen to have the same trip with the rider? The driver earns additional income, while passengers get the ease of transportation experience.

Reporting from CNNIndonesia.com, according to Andrias Ekoyuono, Business Development Ideosource, sharing revival economy in Indonesia is actually supported by many factors, among others:

• Internet access. Advances in technology, particularly the Internet, provide a means of exchanging information that is wide enough. This makes the givers and recipients to find each other. Its scope was not limited to who or what is more intense and peer-to-peer.
• The mobile device. Again, technological advances become one of the supporters of this business model is growing rapidly. The mobile device is easy to carry anywhere to provide easy access to that information.
• Emerging marketplace platform. This is the most important thing according to Andrias. The formation of a new marketplace allows one to create new relationships that no longer form of consumer-corporate-workers, but be a consumer-entrepreneurial provider of products and services. Thus, so the market is wide open and certainly more specific.

Advantages :

• Andrias said, if the share of this economic model goes well, consumers will benefit from the speed of fulfillment, diversity of choice and competitive prices.
• Cheaper rates can be given because, in general, providers of goods or services are individuals or small entrepreneurs who have a lower cost structure than the corporation.
• “The system also creates a lot of jobs and small entrepreneurs who have access to the consumer as well as the opportunity to further develop in accordance with hard work and quality,” said Andrew.

Controversy :

• Behind the welcome given by the people, the existence of online ojek and online taxi presence also gets a challenge. Their presence often makes conventional ojek and conventional taxi drivers angry because it was considered to be a rival.
• In different areas of Jakarta and Tangerang, anti against online ojek also appear. In fact, a motorcycle taxi rank did not hesitate to display the banner’s refusal to reject motorcycle online presence in a particular place.
• Looking at it, the Government is not silent. Government and community leaders felt the need to explain the advantages and benefits of the long-term presence of the online ojek and online taxi itself.

References

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