Our Chosen Reality: Traffic Congestion in Malaysia.
TRAFFIC FATALITY CAUSES AND TRENDS IN MALAYSIA by Akmal Abdelfatah Civil Engineering Department, American University of Sharjah Abstract Relative to its population, Malaysia has one of the highest traffic fatality rates in the world. This paper analyzes Malyasian traffic accidents and fatality rate trends in an effort to (1) understand how private vehicle use patterns affect fatality rates.
This essay will analyse the problem associated with extending the width of the roads and will suggest few alternatives. Proponents of this view point say that widening streets and expressways will help them to increase the number of lanes which in turn can cater more traffic. This strategy will surely help to reduce congestion, but usually.
IT seems the urban traffic landscape is taking a beating as a result of high density in many townships. The traffic updates over the radio, alerting motorists to avoid certain stretches of city highways due to traffic disruption, are alarming.
Using trains, buses, and mini buses, there will be fewer cars on the roads and this means that traffic will be reduced, equating to less traffic congestion. GoMetro App is also there to make the use of public transport easy, commuters can access their train live updates to check where their trains are: if they are canceled or there is a change of time. GoMetro App can be accessed on smart.
Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicularqueueing.The most common example is the physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction between vehicles slows the speed of the traffic stream, this results in some congestion.
Traffic congestion is also caused due to passage of heavy vehicle through narrow road in most of the cases huge traffic is stuck for a longer duration. Generally this happens due to the diversion of traffic (7). 2.8. Accidents A major cause for traffic congestion is accidents, generally accidents are caused due to many reasons such as signal jump, over speed, drink and drive etc., mostly 2.
According to the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) Malaysia, the road accident fatality in Malaysia for year 2008 are 373,407 compared with years 2009 which is estimated 397,330 road accident. The difference is about 24,283 or 6.5 percent cases of road accident throughout the whole state of Malaysia. In the meantime, if comparing with other developed countries like Switzerland, Germany and the.