China is considered one of the busiest country in the world being a tourist city with over 2.23 million inhabitants (still growing). Because of the inevitable growth in the population, numbers of vehicles owned are also inevitably uprising as many of them buy a vehicle as soon as they get a driver’s license. Also, with no increase in road capacity as well as support of public transportations (low speed traffic flows), traffic congestion has become one of the main problem in China.
Some approaches they have considered adopting are effective but some are also ineffective. They focus on three instruments (physical, market and regulatory) such as improving public transport facilities, enlarging public buses system greatly, building a MRT, intelligent signal control system, completing urban road skeleton planning and urban transit network layout if they could successfully conduct all of them.
Comparison of Cars, Bus and Bicycle Capacity vs Space Occupied
On the other hand, though solutions like enlarging government subsidies, expanding urban development space, may likely to succeed, consequences are to be considered beforehand. Increasing capacity roads means that road are built on rural areas, people would hardly have a day of serenity. Despite it decreasing the traffic in the central, more people may want to travel through those new built roads and some still on the central. If this is the case, there would be more traffic than ever. Upon achieving these approaches, of course, a certain sum of money is necessary from government which means a rise on taxes. img source: teeheehee.bostonbiker.org
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