Proposal

This week, we were asked to make a proposal based on the problem "Traffic Jams".

Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. 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.

As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of the intersections along the road), extreme traffic congestion sets in. When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is colloquially known as a traffic jam or traffic snarl-up. Traffic congestion can lead to drivers becoming frustrated and engaging in road rage.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion

Proposal

Topic                         : Traffic Jam

Group name             : Awesome9

Group members      : Melissa Lim (Leader)

  Margareta Aniela (Scribe)

                                       Zhang Jieni

Introduction             :

The increasing number of cars nowadays has caused the main problem on the road that is the traffic jam. People are now very common with this term in daily activity because it is such kind of something that they face almost everyday. Actually this problem is not only affected to some students who are taking bus to school or campus, but also the businesses and commercial road users. The traffic jam sometimes may give bad impacts to the mental of people such a frustration and depression while they are on the way. Another causes such the delayed, late meeting and delivery may also affect to the road users. Even the expansion is no longer enough for major city that has a major population. There are much kind of things that can be done such as having a large parking lots on the outskirts and have frequent mass transit to the business road.

In this context there are some stakeholders who are affected to traffic congestion:

Students and teachers;

Employers;

Deliveryman;

Other commercial road users.

Here are some of the frame questions based on the problem:

Why do the students not wake up earlier?

Why are the students taking bus to school / campus instead of walking?

Why do the location of the students’ house so far from school/campus?

Sources                     :

Magazine

James, Tony. ‘How to… cut traffic jams’. Engineering and Technology Magazine. Vol. 8, No. 1/January. 2013.

<http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2013/01/how-to-traffic-jams.cfm>

Books

Vanderbitt, Tom. Traffic: why we drive the way we do. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Website

‘Traffic Congestion’. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Last revised 17 Jan. 2014.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion>

We finally finished our proposal and collect it to the teacher. Before, we did a research on how traffic jams happen generally. Some sources also needed from magazine, books and websites, and we need to make it based on NAFA e-style guide on blackboard. We also did framed questions based on the problem 'Traffic jams". After doing this proposal, we know about how to write the right bibliography based on NAFA e-style guide and to write an objectives, framed questions to simply know the general things of the problem.