Design of Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit package CP103

Abstract

<p>Completed in 2019, Jakarta’s first MRT system is providing much-needed relief to the congested road network of this city and to its population of around ten million people. Constructing infrastructure in a congested, developed urban area provides substantial challenges for designers, the contractor and client. This paper considers the design of the viaducts and stations within one of the MRT packages, and how site constraints impacted the ultimate solution. Also discussed is the impact of onerous seismic design criteria such as those specified for this project. High serviceability ground accelerations challenged the designer to introduce flexibility into the structural response, whilst simultaneously providing necessary resistance in the ultimate case.</p>