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Traffic congestion costs Tk 19,555cr a year: Study
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
DHAKA, Sept 8, 2012 (BSS) - The cost of traffic congestion is Taka
19,555 crore a year, according to a study carried out by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD).
Sharing key findings of the study at a seminar here, Abdullah Al Mamun, executive engineer of the RHD, showed a comparison of traffic costs -- travel time cost, business loss of freight industry, fuel burnt, accident and medical.
Civil Engineering Department (CED) of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) arranged the seminar at its council room here.
Lawmaker Monwar Hossain Chowdhury addressed the seminar as the chief guest while general secretary of CED Abdus Sabur presiding.
Director General of Bangladesh Railway Abu Taher, experts, officials from different departments that are dealing with the traffic management issue shared their views on the occasion.
Abdullah Al Mamun said inadequate transport infrastructure, inadequate capacity of intersections, absence of scientific traffic control and inadequate parking space for vehicles are the main causes of traffic congestion.
The shares of walk trips dropped dramatically between 1994 and 2005 while the shares of rickshaw and bus trips have increased steadily. "The travel demand will increase by three folds by 2015 putting huge pressure on roads."
He put forward a set of remedial measures to reduce traffic congestion. They are decentralization of administration and business facilities, roadside parking restrictions, rationalization of fuel costs, introduction of mass transit systems, and commuter trains.
Abu Taher said Bangladesh Railway has a role too in reducing the traffic congestion.
Holding the mushroomed growth of level crossings on railways responsible, the railway chief said setting up underpass and bypass on the level crossings would help check road accident.
There are 2500 level crossings in the country and of them 1100 are illegal, he said adding that trains could not run smoothly due to the level crossings.
Concerned departments including Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), RHD and BR should take steps jointly to evict the illegal level crossings, he added.
Favoring metro rail, lawmaker Monwar Hossain said once implemented it will reduce 30 per cent traffic congestion.
He said Bangladesh's neighboring India introduced the metro rail 15 years before while Bangladesh is now at turtle pace to start setting up the much-needed transport mode.
Mainul Hassan, additional deputy commissioner (traffic), said
traffic should be managed applying four things -- education,
engineering, environment and enforcement with 25 per cent roads
as per the international standard.
But, he pointed out, there are seven to eight per cent roads in the country but hardly three to four percent roads are being used.
Motorized and non-motorized vehicles are plying only in Bangladesh, he said adding that given this situation maintaining traffic smoothly is very difficult.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
DHAKA, Sept 8, 2012 (BSS) - The cost of traffic congestion is Taka
19,555 crore a year, according to a study carried out by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD).
Sharing key findings of the study at a seminar here, Abdullah Al Mamun, executive engineer of the RHD, showed a comparison of traffic costs -- travel time cost, business loss of freight industry, fuel burnt, accident and medical.
Civil Engineering Department (CED) of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) arranged the seminar at its council room here.
Lawmaker Monwar Hossain Chowdhury addressed the seminar as the chief guest while general secretary of CED Abdus Sabur presiding.
Director General of Bangladesh Railway Abu Taher, experts, officials from different departments that are dealing with the traffic management issue shared their views on the occasion.
Abdullah Al Mamun said inadequate transport infrastructure, inadequate capacity of intersections, absence of scientific traffic control and inadequate parking space for vehicles are the main causes of traffic congestion.
The shares of walk trips dropped dramatically between 1994 and 2005 while the shares of rickshaw and bus trips have increased steadily. "The travel demand will increase by three folds by 2015 putting huge pressure on roads."
He put forward a set of remedial measures to reduce traffic congestion. They are decentralization of administration and business facilities, roadside parking restrictions, rationalization of fuel costs, introduction of mass transit systems, and commuter trains.
Abu Taher said Bangladesh Railway has a role too in reducing the traffic congestion.
Holding the mushroomed growth of level crossings on railways responsible, the railway chief said setting up underpass and bypass on the level crossings would help check road accident.
There are 2500 level crossings in the country and of them 1100 are illegal, he said adding that trains could not run smoothly due to the level crossings.
Concerned departments including Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), RHD and BR should take steps jointly to evict the illegal level crossings, he added.
Favoring metro rail, lawmaker Monwar Hossain said once implemented it will reduce 30 per cent traffic congestion.
He said Bangladesh's neighboring India introduced the metro rail 15 years before while Bangladesh is now at turtle pace to start setting up the much-needed transport mode.
Mainul Hassan, additional deputy commissioner (traffic), said
traffic should be managed applying four things -- education,
engineering, environment and enforcement with 25 per cent roads
as per the international standard.
But, he pointed out, there are seven to eight per cent roads in the country but hardly three to four percent roads are being used.
Motorized and non-motorized vehicles are plying only in Bangladesh, he said adding that given this situation maintaining traffic smoothly is very difficult.
