According to the National Economic and Development Authority Region (NEDA) XI, Davao City, which has an area of approximately 244,000 hectares, is listed as `one of the largest cities in the world. Because of the city’s wide area, it requires various transportation modes for the people to avail in order to arrive at various places. Among its common public transport vehicles includes jeepneys, buses, tricycles, pedicabs and also those small ‘potpots’ or bicycle with sidecars, single motorcycles also known as “habal-habal”, as well as taxis and rental cars. Most of these public transport vehicles have a predefined route in which they should follow in every trip. For the buses, they can operate within and between provinces. On the other hand, taxis have no defined routes because they can transport passengers to any part of the city. As for the jeepneys, they operate within the city and their routes assigned by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). Because jeepneys are only allowed or …show more content…
Davao City is known for many tourists’ destinations, thus, lots of tourists visit the place. For some people that are not familiar with the public transit in Davao City, the possibility of inconvenience and difficulty in choosing a ride is likely to happen.
As what Borromeo (2016) stated, the traffic condition in Davao City can be considered as a crisis and is not far better than the traffic in Metro Manila. As a daily routine, most of the people are trying to find ways to arrive faster at their destination. When traffic is heavy, taking the shortest distance is still not a guarantee to have a faster way to arrive at the destination. There are optimal paths that are not necessarily based on distance. For the optimal route, the cost, distance, speed, and time are being
For most of its history, Los Angeles has been a city shaped by its transportation challenges. Centuries of planners have tried various solutions to make it easier to navigate this mega-city, but these efforts have not been very successful. Even today, Los Angeles is still known to have some of the worst traffic in the United States. In fact, “most drivers in Los Angeles spend on average about 90 hours sitting in traffic per year” (Frizell 2014). Several problems over the city’s history have contributed to this challenging state, including many failed attempts at a transit system, the constant popularity of cars, and the urban expansion that resulted. This expansion has become
Phoenix is large city in the United States and it is also the biggest city in Arizona. There are lots of who people live, work and study here. Therefore, there are always traffic jams in the rush hours which are morning and afternoon. If the government could improve the public transportation, for example, by adding more buses, there would be fewer people driving cars. According to Tribune (2009) Arizona lobbyists criticize claims that spending more money to improve public transportation is important, not only for creating more jobs, but also for help for reduce traffic, air pollution, and our dependence on oil. This shows that the public transportation here should be improved. Improving public transportation will also be beneficial for citizens in Arizona. It is because there will be fewer traffic jams then people will be taking buses instead of
One of the contributing factors that is going to affect the air quality in the Plan Area, but also the living quality and the residents’ mobility is the transportation impacts. In this section, I will look closely at the impacts with the plan implemented in the Plan Area—VMT, mode share, and TNC; mitigation on cars with the utilization of bike and transit infrastructures—muni forward, Central Subway, and more and improve bike lanes. When talking about transportation, the VMT is very crucial for such an enormous redevelopment like the Plan Area because there is going to be a big increase in the number of residents in the upcoming years. An upward of 25,000 people is predicted to settle within
For each user, one route (among the defined routes) was randomly attributed at a time band. The trip time was then calculated, based on the route distances in the central and suburban areas, and the average speeds on the center and suburb at the given time of the day (randomly attributed among the time bands of the selected user profile), as calculated on the definition of traffic patterns. The parking period for each trip was also determined, based on the probability and duration of parking, as defined in the user profiles.
Observation of Shubra and Heliopolis revealed high traffic cognition due to two reasons; the first based on diversity of land uses and facilities within the surrounding area that increases both areas attractiveness for adjacent community and result in traffic jams. The second, based on the high density and high community size that increase traffic volumes moving in narrow streets that cannot meet such traffic volumes accordingly a high traffic jam is recorded especially in most of Shubra narrow streets. It is clear that resident's movement behavior can contribute to reduce traffic jam especially if more part of their trips relies on walkability and public transportation, also recorded high community density that increase feasibility of public transportation and recorded high accessibility with short distance to public transportation could contribute to reduce traffic cognition by facilitating residents reliance to public transportation. Even though, a huge part of such traffic volumes caused by residents who are not welling the low quality public transportation; so an enhancement of the quality of public transportation could increase resident's dependency on mass transportation and reduce private cars and accordingly reduce traffic jams.
Traffic jams are feared and hate by many due to the challenges like wasting time. While traveling from one place to the other one always wishes to reach the destination early enough, but in the case of the traffic jams this usually changes. A person is often late to work, class or any other place a person was wishing to be. In some of the case, people have lost their jobs since they could not make it to work on time due to the traffic jam. It is important to identify that traffic jam in Los Angeles is more of the increase in the number of vehicles (Bento et al. 44). It has been identified that in the days when the fuel prices are low there tends to be a large number of vehicles in town unlike when the prices are high. The increase of the motor vehicles and the jam has led to people engaging into other activities while driving.
For those of you who choose public transit as their preferred method of transportation, the pros and cons may seem like an endless mountain to sort through. Let’s start with the pros.
The local government all over the world face financial constraints due to disparity between costs and revenues. Many urban planners think that revenues cannot be covered from fare box alone. Indian cities are also facing the same challenges. But due to some funding through JnNURM the city officials find some relief in procuring buses of high standards like present in developed countries.
urgent need therefore to direct this heavy traffic through a safer route to reach Duhok
This will make vehicles in the Philippines more efficient and will help public utility vehicle drivers like Jeepney drivers in reducing the number of maintenance they need to keep their vehicles safe to
Public transport has become very easy to use, with applications that you can download onto your smartphone, you can know exactly when your bus or train will arrive at your bus stop. Science and technology have really improved the efficiency, comfort and ease of access associated with transport.
There have been significant amounts of research undertaken in order to examine the transit system performance, and in turn of assessing the performance based on such methods but the two characteristics underline the work. First, due to heterogeneity in getting different relationships between efficiency and effectiveness, system performance, existence of scale of economies and various such issues, the conclusion which have come out of different studies is not same. In other words there are conflicting conclusions. Even researchers are not using the data which is provided by NTD (National Transit Data base) and as a result the comparability of findings across researches is questionable. A second problem arises because researches have been using cross section-time series data from largely heterogeneous systems and have introduced a size-related bias in their results (Berechman, 1993).
A website maintained by the University of Indiana (2014) showed that this university had five bus routes namely route A, B, D, E, and X. Depending upon the weekdays and weekends the bus service time was different. Campus bus services did not provide any transfer service to the public bus. However, the campus bus service was fare free system; no passengers had to pay bus fare. All buses were equipped with wheel chair ramp for disabled passengers. The transit system also provided night service which normally operated from 10 pm to 3 am. The website used ‘DoubleMap’ application which is on-line bus tracking system that provided real time information of the bus on the selected routes.
(congestion, pollution, overpopulation etc.). Sustainable Urban transport sector was chosen to study & compare transport planning, policy & implementation of different countries across the globe.
Furthermore, all drivers want to get from O to R as fast as possible. Therefore, the driver’s decision for a route was only influenced by the time needed for the route.