Case Studies

In understanding more about the traffic happening in Singapore, conducting case studies from different countries helps a lot. Here are some of them:

Buncheon City, Korea

Problems:

·      A city inhabited by nearly 900,000 people, four major institutions of higher education, a symphony orchestra and several notable public gardens that host annual festivals.

·      Lack insight to reduce traffic congestion and slow in reciprocating traffic incidents

·      Traffic data is often inaccurate. Monitoring traffic flow is from closed circuit tv video which is counted manually.

Solutions:

Using intelligent video analytics to provide real-time traffic information to drivers to avoid congestion, conduct traffic surveillance and improve city roads.

Hangzhou, China

·      A tourist city with 2.23 million people living there and growing, uprising of the number of vehicles

·      Many of them buy vehicles as soon as they get a driver license

·      No increase in road capacity

·      Public transportations run less efficiently and are mixed with low speed of traffic flows

·      No Mass Rapid Transit

·      Lack in parking spaces, people roam around the road

Solutions

·      Perfecting public transport facilities

Improving station facilities
Improving urban junctions of park and shift

Improving urban intelligent public traffic system

·      Perfecting public transport operating structures

Enlarging public buses system greatly Developing urban rail transit orderly
Developing Large-capacity rapid bus moderately

·      Ensuring the road use priority rights of the public transport
Settling bus priority lane and bus priority intelligent signal control system scientifically.

Improving management of bus priority lane and bus priority intelligent signal control system

·      Enlarging government subsidies (State council, 2005)

·      Highlighting status of central city, setting the stage for expanding of urban future’s development space

·      Completing urban road skeleton planning and urban rail transit network layout planning

DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Problems:

·      Around 1.1 million trips were made everyday from suburban to central Jakarta

·      Unavailability of comfortable public transportation system ® lack of intermodal integration

·      Subsidized gasoline price, concentrated economic growth

·      Difficulty in land acquisition

·      Difficulty of coordination among local governments

·      Non-transparent transportation policymaking process

Lower income and lower standard of living ® subsidy for gasoline ® lack of budget of investment ® lack of public transportation investment ®use of private cars and motorcycles ® congestion ®lower efficiency and productivity; loss of competitiveness ® lower income and lower standard of living

Solutions:

·      Begun operation of the BRT system (Bus Rapid Transport)

·      Three-in-one

·      Monorail

·      Commuter line

·      Implement the recently passed law on Land acquisition for public use

·      MRT system

·      ERP (Electronic Road Pricing system)

·      Bike-to-work motto

More readings about other countries' problems and solutions:

http://www.slideshare.net/RCha/case-study-of-traffic-management-in-cambridge-uk

http://gccbs2013.aast.edu/newgcc/images/pdf/traffic%20congestion%20sustainable%20sotlutions%20mass%20transportation.pdf
http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/IntOrg/ecmt/urban/Tokyo05/Yap.pdf

http://www.esc-pau.fr/ppp/documents/featured_projects/thailand.pdf

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Half-baked-solutions-will-not-ease-Bangkoks-traff-30217071.html