Traffic Congestion-The main cause of the low efficiency of life

Traffic Congestion-The main cause of the low efficiency of life

  Traffic congestion is a kind of sustainable problem in the urbanisation. It can be seen as the result of high speed development of a city both from the economic and social aspects. However it is a problem may have adverse impacts on sustainable development of the city.  

  The reasons cause this phenomenon can be divided into three different categories which are exceeding the capacity of the road, the design aspect, and other causes.

Traffic congestion in Sydney

• Exceeding the capacity of the road

         -A large number of social cars

  The increasing of private cars is a major cause which contributes to this  problem. To be more specific, the number of car increases constantly without the increasing the capacity of the road, the vehicle flow exceeds this capacity, then the congestion occurs.

         -Enormous distinction of resources distribution

  For example, during the holiday, the majority of  highways become crowded. This is led by the unbalanced distribution of traffic resources causing the load over the capacity of the traffic system.

• The design aspect

         -Insufficient road capacity or inappropriate design

  This can be elaborated as the planners or designers of the road do not consider the future condition of the traffic flow and irrational road design . Such as the emanative road network in the historic city like Roman, the cars moves from the suburbs to the central city causing the congestion of arterial road.

         -Redundant intersections

  The road intersection is another reason responsible for traffic congestion. Because of the traffic signals, the flow will be obstructed which in turn leads to the phenomenon.

• Other causes

  The other reasons include road construction, weather factors and traffic jam causing by traffic accidents and so on.

  This issue can contribute many adverse impacts, especially reduce the efficiency of the life. If a commuter work at 9 am., the traffic jam may make the commuter is late for the work and waste much more time which can be save for creating benefits for the company. Serious traffic congestion even can lead death to human beings. You can imagine that if there is a ambulance which carries a patient who need emergency treatment obstructed by the traffic jam, the patient may lose his or her life.

  I hope that government could implement policy or take other measures to mitigate this issue and improve the quality of life.

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