motorcycle taxi(ojek)

Motorcycle taxi or public transport ojeg is informal in Indonesia in the form of a motorcycle or bicycle, but more commonly in the form of a motorcycle. Called informal because their existence is not acknowledged by the government and no permission for operation. Passengers usually one person but can sometimes be both. With a price determined by a bargain with the driver first then the driver will take passengers to the desired destination.

Motorcycle taxis are widely used by residents of big cities such as Jakarta. Because the surplus with other transportation that is faster and can pass the sidelines of congestion in the city. Moreover, it can reach areas with narrow alleys and hardest-hit by the car. Usually they hang out at a busy intersection, or in the driveway residential neighborhood.

Ojek bikes but rarely found in Jakarta, Tanjung Priok in the City and there are many bike motorcycle taxis that operate even though only a short distance.

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Bajaj

Bajaj (pronounced "ba-jai") is a three-wheeled vehicle that is widely used in Jakarta. Beside Jakarta, bajaj is also found in the city of Pekanbaru and Banjarmasin and several districts in Indonesia's capital.

History
Bajaj is known comes from India. Bajaj name itself is actually one of the largest automotive brand in India, Bajaj Auto. Bajaj became better known after the Bajaj Bajuri, serial comedy which tells the story of a three-wheeler driver. Later, because it is known as a source of pollution, Bajaj in Jakarta will soon be replaced with other mini vehicles, Kancil.

Physical
Bajaj three-wheeled, one in front and two behind, with a shape much like the steering wheel of a motorcycle than a car wheel. For in Jakarta, bajaj color there are two, namely blue and orange. At the front door bajaj, bajaj operating area is usually written, which is usually limited to one municipality alone.

Bajaj passenger capacity is two, or plus one small child, all of whom will sit behind the three-wheeler driver. 2 step bajaj engine sound is deafening. However, due to the relatively small physique, bajaj reliable way to break through the bottlenecks of the capital.

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pedicab history

 

Pedicab (from the Hokkien language: some chia "cart horse") is a three-wheeled mode of transportation that is commonly found in Indonesia and also in parts of Asia. Normal capacity rickshaws are two passengers and a driver. Being a rickshaw driver is one way to get the most simple living, so the number of rickshaw drivers in areas of high unemployment rate would be very high. Rickshaw was banned in Jakarta in the late 1980s. Official reason, among others, at that time was that the rickshaw is the "exploitation of man by man", and rickshaws replaced by Bajaj, Helicak.

In Indonesia there are two types of rickshaws are commonly used:

     * Pedicab with the driver behind. This species usually exist in Java.
     * Pedicab with the driver's side. This type is usually found in Sumatra. For this type of pedicab can be subdivided into two sub-types, namely:

    1. Pedal pedicab - Pedicab who use bicycles as a rudder.
    2. Motorized pedicab / rickshaw engine - Pedicab who use motorcycles as a driver.

In some other countries there is a pedicab driver in front, as developed in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which later developed this concept in the bajay taken from India in the 1970s.

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gig history

Transportation vehicle wagon is a traditional two-wheeled, three or four that do not use the machine but using the horse as his successor. The variation of transportation that uses horses include War Train, Train Train Kencana and horses.

The name of this vehicle comes from the name of the inventor, namely Charles Theodore Deeleman, a litografer and engineers in the Netherlands East Indies. The Dutch themselves call this vehicle with the name of the dos-à-dos (back in the back, literally meaning French), which is a kind of a sitting passenger train backs to each other. The term dos-à-dos this later by the indigenous population of Batavia abbreviated longer a 'sado'.

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history of motor tricycles

Pedicab machine is a term used in Sumatra for the rickshaw which is driven by the engine, also known as a motor rickshaw. Pedicab this machine is a very popular mode of travel from door to door (door to door service).

Unlike in Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra rickshaw drivers are next to the driver so that the width of rickshaws and their nearly matching the car so that when the streets will make the street look full. For high speed machine because pedicab driver is required to use helmets.

History
Initially used in machine-made two-step German Rex is a simple small-sized silender mounted paddle rickshaw. then developed using a dikayuh Gobel moped to power it and a few other brands, is now used a lot of new production motorcycle sold in Indonesia to drive the rickshaw. The motorcycle used in Medan to be a motor rickshaw is usually a Honda motorcycle Win.

Slightly different Siantar town in North Sumatra, which is hilly in the 1940s and 1950s using a rickshaw with a large engine (350 cc to 500 cc), such as BSA, Norton, Java legacy of World War II, also known as Pedicab Siantar. Siantar Society [4] try to maintain the originality of public transport vehicles Siantar legendary for the community, city located 45 kilometers from Lake Toba.

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