Impact of traffic jam in professional life

Impact of Traffic Jam in professional life:

A survey among Residents of Uttara, Mohakhali, Mirpur

A report submitted to the Department of English, AIUB, in part-fulfillment of the requirement of the final

examination in Business Communication,

Fall semester 2010

Prepared & submitted by

Hossain Sirwan

Course teacher

Dr. Faheem, Hossain Shaheed

Head of the Department

Department of English

Date of submission

December 27, 2010

American International University-Bangladesh

December 27, 2010

Dr. Faheem, Hossain Shaheed

Course Instructor, Business Communication

Head of the Department

Department of English

Subject: Submission of Report

Dear Sir,

We have the pleasure to submit this report entitled “Impact of Traffic Jam in professional life: A survey

among Residents of Uttara, Mohakhali and Mirpur” which has been prepared in part-fulfillment of the

requirements of the Final Examination in Business Communication.

Traffic jam- the weirdest curse gifted to us by so called urbanization. The mega city of Dhaka cannot

afford the burden of 140 million people on its 360 kilometers of land. And Traffic jam stands as the

number one problem of Dhaka city. 93% city dwellers are directly related to it. It is not a problem now-a-

days rather it is more than a problem because problem has some solutions that traffic jam has not. Time is

the most valuable things in the twenty first centaury no doubt. And traffic jam is killing the most

productive time of the people of Dhaka city. Time is going on and on and we are lagging behind. The

world is becoming speedy where as we are becoming slower.

Finally, we are truly grateful to you for giving us this pleasant opportunity to work on this report. The

entire group contribution has led to the successful completion of this report. Despite our all possible

attempts, certain deficiencies may reside and we sincerely regret this.

Best Regards,

Hossain Sirwan,

08-11676-2

Preface

This report is made based on the problems faced by the working class peoples of Dhaka city because of

Traffic jam. Based on surveying of some residents of Uttara, Mohakhali and Mirpur area this report was

made. The report contains the affect of traffic jam in daily life of the professional people. It also has some

suggestions for the Government to take initiative to solve this problem to make the citizens life better.

Acknowledgement

First and foremost, we would like to thank to our course instructor of this business communication course

Dr. Faheem, Hossain Shaheed for the valuable guidance and advice. He inspired us greatly to work in this

term paper. His willingness to motivate us contributed tremendously to our work. We also would like to

thank him for his valuable time by helping us for this report.

Besides, we would like to thank the respondents who helped us by giving their answers to the

questionnaire. We are very thankful to them as they gave their precious time for us. Their cooperation

really helps us to analyze and finalize this report.

Finally, an honorable mention goes to my class mates for their understandings and supports in completing

this report. Without helping of the particular that mentioned above, we would face many difficulties while

doing this report.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Abstract

The mega city of Dhaka cannot afford the burden of 140 million people on its 360

kilometers of land. And Traffic jam stands as the number one problem of Dhaka city. 93%city dwellers

are directly related to it. It was followed by pollution 62 percent, higher fares 46 percent, and frequent

accidents 26 percent; hijacking 26 percent. The city dwellers, city planners, policy makes, the experts and

researchers who think about the city will unanimously agree that Dhaka is one of the most unplanned

cities of the world. It is lengthy in south and northern directions while its width consisting of east and

western directions is few kilometers only. There is hardly any scope of its expansion in eastern and

western side to a visible extent.

Non-mechanized vehicles that mostly rickshaws fall the victim of any decision to ease

traffic jam. Now question arises are cars more efficient than rickshaws in terms of road

space occupancy? Despite constant claims of the city officials that rickshaws are the main

source of traffic jams, data indicate that rickshaws are far superior to cars as far as road

space occupancy and pollution contribution is concerned. In the base case, i.e. before the

fuel-free transport ban, rickshaws made up 67.8% of vehicles, yet unlisted only 43.5% of

road space to transport 59.4% of passengers. Cars made up only 6.4% of vehicles, yet

occupied as much as 29.9% of the road space in the base case to transport far fewer

passengers than by rickshaw. Despite being removed from the main roads, rickshaws are

still the most popular mode of transport serving 30% of the passengers whereas cars serve

only 8.5% of all types.

Chapter 1

1.0 : Introduction

1.1 What is Traffic Jam?

A condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds,

longer trip times, and increased vehicular queuing. As demand approaches the capacity of a road,

extreme traffic congestion sets in. When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is

known as traffic jam.

1.2 Reasons of traffic jam:

There are many reasons of traffic jam in Dhaka city among them the major reasons are-

1.2.1 Less number of roads:

Any city in world needs at least 40% roads of the total area, where Dhaka city

only has 12% roads according to the total area of Dhaka city which is very fewer

of the actual need.

1.2.2 Deficiency of wider roads:

Roads are very narrow in Dhaka city especially in the old town area. As a reason

few number of vehicles can pass through a certain road at a time.

1.2.3 Excess number of vehicles :

Day by day the numbers of vehicles in Dhaka city are getting higher. The old

cars are still running on the streets where in addition new cars are imported in a

mass number. There is no salvation process for these old cars in our country as a

reason the numbers of vehicles are increasing day by day.

1.2.4 Unplanned roads:

The roads are unplanned in Dhaka city. Every year new roads are planned in

Dhaka city but they are not properly planned up to the standard. As a reason they

are able to solve a particular places traffic jam but it increase another areas

conjunction even more.

1.2.5 Unskilled and uneducated drivers:

Another main reason of Traffic jam is because of the unskilled and uneducated

drivers. They don’t follow the traffic rules. As they are uneducated they are

unable to read the signs and park here and there in the handicap place. overtaking

tendency of drivers create pro-longed traffic congestions.

1.2.6 Lacking of traffic system:

The traffic system is very poor in Bangladesh. Even the traffic signals are

handled by the traffic sergeants manually though there is a proper traffic signal

lights and system.

1.2.7 Level crossing:

Due to level crossing the movements of the vehicles become stale and it creates

traffic jam.

1.2.8 Illegal parking:

Illegal parking is another big reason for traffic jam in Dhaka city. As there is no

proper parking place in Dhaka city (shops, malls, office, educational institutes

etc.) people park their car here and there on the roads. The roads are narrow in

Dhaka city and for parking like this the road became even narrower.

1.2.9 Slow pace vehicles:

Slow pace vehicles such as rickshaw, human pulling carts and vans are another

big problem of Dhaka city’s traffic jam. They move slow and the number of this

types of vehicles is huge.

1.2.10 VIP Protocol:

 VIP protocol maintaining is another reason for frequent traffic jams in the streets

and divider problem in the city’s different important roads also causes

congestion.

1.2.11 Other reasons :

There are other factors that create traffic jams such as excess no. of schools and

university in commercial and residential areas. Increasing no. of CNG stations,

Illegal vehicles etc.

1.3 Impact of traffic jam in Dhaka city:

All citizen of Dhaka city face traffic jam almost everyday. Because of traffic jam people need

to start from home two or three times earlier to his destination. It kills our valuable time.

Students are the worst victim. Their education is hampered because of traffic jam. Emergency

patients, Ambulance service, Fire department also face trouble due to traffic jam.

1.4 Impact of traffic jam in professional life :

Because of traffic jam the professional people face a lot of problem in their regular life.

People lose their time on their way for nothing. Everyday work-hours are unnecessarily

wasted due to traffic jam. It has a great economic impact on production and thus on our

economy. Traffic-jam causes untold sufferings to the people going to offices and various

destinations. The Business men are also suffered because of traffic jam. They are missing

important meetings with the foreign clients and also losing their business deals. The corporate

people are also the sufferer. They are often late for their work. Miss their conferences. The

manufacturers are also affected by the traffic jam because of delay on their raw material

supply. For this reason the productivity is getting delayed for which the GDP of Bangladesh

is also getting low. In garment sector the businessmen are affected by traffic jam because of

their late supply the foreign customer cancel their shipments. And the well reputation of

Bangladesh garment sector is losing their name in foreign market; as a result Bangladesh is

losing their clients which are bad for the economy of our country.

1.5 Objective of the Report

To learn the procedure how to do an effective research, we choose the topic- Impact of

Traffic Jam in professional life. We try our best to make this report.

To understand how much people affect from traffic jam

To identify the problems of the projected research.

To determine the factor affecting in traffic jam in Dhaka

To determine the impacts of traffic jam

To determine the impacts of traffic jam in job sector

To identify the respondents opinions about traffic jam

1.6 Scope of the report:

This report is focus on the professional people who live in Dhaka city and suffer from traffic

jam. We target different working class people to gather information which is based on our

topic.

1.7 Methodology:

1.7.1 Type of Research:

This is an exploratory type of research. This research will help us to identify the impacts

and affects of traffic jam on the society.

1.7.2 Sources of data:

In order to attain the objective of the study in this research repot all-necessary information are

collected and prepared using primary sources of data. We have applied survey method by using

questionnaire to gather primary data on impact of Traffic jam in professional life.

1.7.3 Report evaluation & preparation instrument:

Data has analyzed & report prepared by using –

MS Excel

MS Word

1.7.4 Group Discussion:

We have discussed with a group include 4 members to analyze data and prepare the report on impact

of Traffic jam in professional life, based on related data that we have collected by asking people

different questions. We took help from our honorable course teacher Dr. Faheem Hossain Shaheed

1.8 Limitations of the Report:

We have tried our best to make this research as perfect as possible; still there are some limitations of this

research. It is acknowledged that the work here is exploratory study for us because previously no study

was done regarding this topic. The survey took some time due to personal visits. Time constraints and

cost are also the limitation of our study.

1.9 Organization of the Report

This report studies the pattern of impact of traffic jam in professional life – based on some area of Dhaka

city (Uttara, Mohakhali and Mirpur). Chapter 1 of this report provides the introduction of the report

which states briefly some of the information researchers have collected during literature review. The

objectives of the report are also stated explicitly to facilitate the overall implementation of the report.

Methodologies are stated in order to provide a clear idea to the readers how the research has been

conducted. However, several limitations are undoubtedly present in this research. Chapter 2 of the report

highlights the major findings of the research.

Relevance is also discovered as the research progresses. Tables, graphs and pie charts are served to

facilitate the presentation of the report. Chapter 3 contains the recommendations and conclusion.

Chapter 2

2.0 Finding and analysis

1. Where do you live in?

Total number Percentage

At Uttara 22 44%

At Mohakhali 18 36%

At Mirpur 10 20%

Figure 1 Where do you live in?

2. Do you face any major problem because of traffic jam?

Answer Total Number Percentage

Yes 47 94%

No 3 6%

3. By which transport you go to your destination?

Total number percentage

By Bus 26 52%

By CNG 7 14%

By Private car 12 24%

By Rickshaw 5 10%

Figure 2 By which transport you go to your destination?

4. What is your destination distance by time?

Total number Percentage

Minimum 1 hour 25 50%

Less than 1 hour 15 30%

More than 1 hours 6 12%

More than 2 hours 4 8%

5. Do you concentrate properly in your works because of traffic jam?

Answer Total Number Percentage

Yes 15 30%

No 13 26%

Sometimes not 22 44%

6. Do you think that traffic jam waste your valuable time?

Answer Total Number PercentageYes 49 98%No 1 2%

7. To reduce the traffic jam - what should be taken you think?

Answer Total Number Percentage

Major over bridge 20 40%Proper traffic system 16 32%Different areas for different vehicles 8 16%Different lanes for different vehicles 6 12%

Figure 3 To reduce the traffic jam - what should be taken

8. What is your suggestion to reconstruct for reducing the major problems of traffic jam?

Answers Total number PercentageTo make tunnels 8 16%To make more Flyover 22 44%To make underground railway 15 30%By removing the level crossing 5 10%

Figure 4 Suggestion to reconstruct for reducing the

9. Lack of experience driving is one of the major cause of traffic jam

Answer Total number Percentage

Yes 42 84%

No 8 16%

10. Who is the main victim of traffic jam?

Answers Total number Percentage

Office going people 22 44%

Businessman 11 22%

Students 13 26%

Emergency services 4 8%

Figure 5 Main victim of traffic jam.

11. The traffic jam has a great impact on our economy?

Answers Total number percentage

Yes 48 96%

No 2 4%

12. If you the Prime minister for the one day, what is your activity for the purpose of traffic

jam?

Answers Total Number Percentage

Flyover 9 18

Subway 11 22

Expand the city 3 6

Shifting garments from capital 6 12

Both Flyover and subway 21 42

Figure 6: If you the Prime minister for the one day

13. It wastes our valuable time?

Answers Total Number Percentage

Fully Agree 49 78%

Agree 10 20%

Neither agree or disagree 1 2%

Disagree 0 0%

Full disagree 0 0%

14. Lack of parking place also creates the jam?

Answers Total Number Percentage

Fully agree 41 82%

Agree 8 16%

Neither agree or disagree 1 2%

Disagree 0 0%

Fully disagree 0 0%

15. Do you think that by pass road can for reduce traffic jam?

Answers Total Number Percentage

Yes 45 90%

No 5 10%

Chapter 3

Conclusion:

Chapter 4

Recommendation:

Appendix: