Traffic Congestion

To begin with, traffic congestion is the severe problem that many cities around the world are facing in their daily life.This problem is caracterised by queueing of vehicles on the road network. 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 can lead to drivers becoming frustrated and engaging in road rage.

There are several causes of  road traffic congestion. The main reason for this is Inadequate road capacity for the  vehicles to accomodate with. Now a days people are engaged in various kind of occupation. Most of the people are job holder so they need car for their private use rather than travelling in over crowded area. More over various accident occur on the road but their is no provision of man power for clearing of the roads quickly after the road break down. When their is traffic jam vehicle needs to go through the alternate route lik fly overs but people are not being able to get those facilities.

Thus in order to reduce and eliminate the traffic congestion various major can be applied. One possible solution to this problem is to impose heavy taxes on car drivers and use thhis money to improve public transportation such that car worner will be discourase to make the expensive drive and begin to make the use of public transport instead.Other measures like abolising the automobile subsidies, proper use of existing lane of road and eliminating the parking requirements in industries areas are useful to decrease the traffic jam.