3.0 Transportation Demand As the population of a city grows the demand for infrastructure investment and services also increases. Infrastructure investment includes investment into various transportation system such as roadways, trains and bicycle lanes. The main focus of a transportation investment is to meet current and future transportation demands while providing a sustainable and efficient system. In the Greater Toronto Area, the main mode of transportation is automobile which is a reoccurring theme in many parts of North America. 3.1 Traffic Congestion Since the GTA is a relatively new region and is continuing to grow municipalities are now starting to invest into transit systems beyond just expanding roadways. The main reason for municipalities in the GTA becoming auto dependent is …show more content…
Since the main form of transportation in the GTA is the automobile congestion has become a growing issue in all cities in the area and the challenge becomes how will municipalities address the issue of providing a mode of transportation for its growing population that will be sustainable and efficient. Studies have suggested that traffic in Canada specifically the Greater Toronto Area is serious enough to be in line with cities with significantly larger populations such as New York or Los Angeles (McQuigge, 2017). The Canadian Automobile Association (CCA) found that the portion of highway 401 running through the GTA is the ninth most congestion roadway in North America (McQuigge, 2017). This highlights the need for investment into new transportation infrastructure opposed to solely roadway expansion. Investment into new transportation system isn’t the only solution an indirect solution would be implementing new planning policies directed towards development patterns in the GTA that would shift the demand from an automobile focus to public transit
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is not the best method of transportation in the city of Toronto, because it’s unreliable, inconvenient, and unsanitary. First of all, the TTC is unreliable because of many delays. The TTC buses often come late and there are many subway breakdowns and signal problems. These problems can cause longer wait times and result in the rider being late. Additionally, the TTC is inconvenient because it is difficult for the rider to get to his or her destination without a few transfers. In addition, there are very few direct routes and limited area coverage. For example, there are some areas where passengers have to walk long distances just to get to the bus stop. These problems can result in many transfers and cause
Uber needs to focus its entry into densely populated areas of Canada lacking a well developed public transit system. These opportunities can easily be taken advantage of if Uber was to further develop its existing strengths.
Congestion and traffic pollution has been a major problem in New York City for years. There have been many laws, tolls, and fines implemented over the past few decades to try and fix the problem. Yet, congestion still exists. Congestion occurs when there is overcrowding on roadways that’s causes traffic jams. There are several reasons for the severity of this issue. Congestion causes a lot of delays in the city. It is unlikely that people are on time for anything, even if they planned ahead. With traffic in the city the way it is, you can’t blame them. The indirect effect of congestion is traffic pollution. Traffic pollution is polluting of the environment caused by harmful toxins and gases given released by cars. The amount of pollution that rises from cars in the city is an immediate health risk for all its residents. It is an ongoing problem New Yorkers face, one that I think, with cooperation from city officials, can be remedied. There are several factors that complicate the traffic pollution and congestion problem in the city. The first and perhaps biggest factor is the amount of cars in the city. The reason there are so many cars is because New York City has been overdeveloped with commercial enterprise; meaning too many businesses have offices located in Manhattan. There are too many cars and too few roads. A second major cause of the traffic problems in the city is gridlock. Gridlock is defined the inability to move on a transport network. The traffic that resulted from me getting stuck in the middle of the intersection is referred to as gridlock. A third major cause is one-way streets. One-way streets cause people to travel an excess amount to get to their destination. This in effect causes increased pollution because of ...
Indian government is facing the problem of traffic congestion in its four metro cities namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Delhi is the worst affected. Reports say that on an average 1,200 vehicles are added to delhi roads daily. In September 2010, Mail Today carried a report quoting CRRI scientists. It said, "Six years of Delhites’, careers are spent in snarls as 7 million man hours and Rs. 100 crore in productivity are lost to gridlocks, making the capital the worst congested city in India."What has the ministry worried is that though the Master Plan projection for public transport usage is an impressive 80 per cent by 2020, it has actually slipped to under 40 per cent at current rates. For the purpose of managing the traffic and to meet the goals of the Master Plan, the government of Delhi has shortlisted your company in providing advice to conquer this problem.
Public transportation is an essential part of a city. A good public transit can encourage a city’s economic activities and can provide its citizen a convenient life. Does our Phoenix public transit work well? Does it provide sufficient service to the citizen? From my experience, the answer is no. This November I tried to attend the popular State Fair in Phoenix. However, I found that there were not any buses or metros could take me to the fair directly. It means I need 2 hours or more spend on the public transits. As the sixth most populous city nationwide (“Phoenix Quick Fact” 1), compared with Los Angeles and other big cities in America, Phoenix’s public transportation is indeed subpar. Due to Los Angeles has 154 bus lines and 30 metros (“Schedule”), New York has 316 bus lines and 28 subways(“Maps & Timetables”), while Phoenix only has 98 bus lines, and the number of metro line is only one! (“Route Schedules & Maps”) The problem is
In this essay, I will discuss the topic of urban public transportation and how it relates to the Church and Wellesley BIA. The nature of transportation in Toronto is a highly complex topic. As discussed in the article Transportation: The Bottleneck of Regional Competitiveness in Toronto, there are many concerns with transportation in regards to international transport, roads, highways, rails, bike lanes, buses etc. (Keil, Roger, Young, 2008). These transportation variables all have a greater economic, health, and environmental impact. The article goes on to describe that mobility in Toronto suffers because its management is uncoordinated, and there is a gap in regional interaction (Keil, Roger, Young 2008). The scope of this essay will be to
Most people take the urban public transportation system for granted. It is used in every aspect of our daily lives: work, education, medical necessities, recreation, etc. It is also important for the transportation of goods and services, which aids the growth and maintenance of our economy. Urban public transportation is the critical component of our quality of life and economic stability. The MBTA, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is Boston and Eastern Massachusetts’s major transportation service. The MBTA has played a central role in the development of Boston and surrounding cities and towns for more than a century; providing service from 175 cities and towns into Boston. On an average weekday over 1.2 million trips are made on the subway, buses, commuter lines and other services in the mass transit system. With an international airport, a ship port, the highways, and the rail lines to connect regional cities and towns to national and international destinations and markets, Boston’s urban public transportation system has made the region’s growing role in the global economy possible.
Congestion is a condition of traffic delay due to the number of vehicles trying to use the road exceeds the traffic network capacity to handle them. Congestion is a major problem growing in many towns like Windhoek. In general congestion delays travel to reach their destination on time as planned. One can be thinking of implementing congestion charging to reduce to reduce this issue. There are many various economic implications of congestion as follow:
Nowadays, urban population is witnessing a rapid growth and henceforth its mobility. City infrastructures and economic resources may not follow at the same rate as the increasing mobility. So often, projected increase in transport needs goes beyond projected expansion of transit network capacity. This asymmetry between transportation supply and demand is unmistakable: congestion, unpleasant travelling conditions and other phenomena that comes with are already witnessed in the public transit system.
At one point in history the human population could rely on self-mobilization to sufficiently relocate from place to place. In other words, everybody used to travel around on foot because there was no other means of transportation. Mankind could only hold itself to this sole means of mobility for so long. Eventually the human mind got creative and many different ways of transportation developed. From horseback and drawn carriages to Henry Ford's marvel of creation the automobile; people began to move from place to place at a more rapid rate every day. From then onward, means of transportation has since branched off into many different variations. Advancements were originally made to increase efficiency. People were simply appeased with population movement for the greater good. Society today has drawn itself to far from that original perspective. It seems that today people are more concerned about how they look in what they ride in versus the original principal of the matter; that is, the efficiency of relocation of persons or things. The automobile may have originally been viewed as a positive aspect of efficient population transportation; however, it is arguably the single worst cause of pollution today (Bach,17). In the eternal search for a more efficient means of transportation, public transit sheds a bit of light onto the subject. Why not let this light shine down on to our wonderful hometown? Columbia is a busy crowded city that tends to clutter with traffic on a daily basis. What would be the results of introducing mass public transit to the city of Columbia? Instead of personal automobiles you would have taxis and subways to work along side the active bus system. How would this effect the city on an economic level, an en...
In any country the government plays a crucial role in the organisation and distribution of goods and services in the public sector, and to the organisation of policies and investments that surround the transportation system, including public transit. Enhanced and efficent public transport systems are necessary not only to provide better public service, but also to reduce demand for personal vehicles and the various problems associated with it (Wan, Wang, & Sperling, 2013).National governments around the world differ in their social and economic structures, and in particular their infrastructure projects and investments (Galilea & Medda, 2010), and because of this, public transportation differs extensively around the world. The national and/or local government essentially is in charge and runs the various modes of public transpor...
Congestion is a financial model used to charge road users more for the negative effects its by-products causes the economy, which impacts on the environment such as air pollution, visual intrusion, number of accidents, gas emissions, increases in number of vehicles which worsen congestion, lost time through traveling in town, wasted fuel and vehicle wear and tear..
However, with the inadequate public transportation in Los Angeles the first step to lessening our carbon footprint is to improve the system. Buses travel on tight schedules in order reach to their destinations on time, but congested roads seem to make this impossible. For example, in 2011 it was reported by USA Today only about “6.2% of area workers took public transit to work” and in 2013 84.1% of people drove to work (Hess and Weigley). The increase of private vehicles on the road increases congestion thus buses are stuck in traffic causing them to be late to their next stop. Residents of Los Angeles have reported that the bus service is inconsistent with the time tables provided which has led many to lose jobs due to late buses (Hayes). Allowing bus-only lanes will increase the service and will decrease the number of late buses (Elkind). Bus-only lanes will function similarly to the carpool lane and will serve as an incentive for private car owners to switch to public transit. Other methods to improve public transit in Los Angeles are costly and will take longer to be made available to the public. For example, creating new rails for the Metro will require a great deal of construction which will increase the amount of traffic. The bus-only lanes are a low-cost option that will improve the time passengers get to and from their destinations greatly (Elkind.) Moreover, the bus-only lanes will
Moreover, flourished public transit system in the economy creates a lot of job opportunities. In Michigan; roughly around 4000 jobs are created for every 100 million invested in the public transit system. If they are more job opportunities in the economy, it would provide a lot of benefit to the economy, such as extra collection of income taxes which can be spent on the infrastructure of the country. (Get Michigan Moving) Unemployment ratio would be less in the economy, so the government would not have to provide unemployment benefits, which now can be used for some other purposes.
The need for good public transportation services is quite certainly apparent, particularly for developed cities. Without it, everyone would either need to locate themselves close to place of work, or everyone has to use some alternative means of private transport. For large cities, where there are millions of people that need to travel on daily basis, it is simply not possible for all of this movement to function well without public transportation (Johnson 2004, p. 4). For a developed city to have good public transportation services, this does not happen by accident. City and town planners need the appropriate tools to conduct the work of creating appropriate plans for public transport, land use