Case Study

In the progress of making the report, we need to do our own case study and later combine case study and the other member's case studies into the report. In this case study, I did the "Traffic Management in UK". Anyway, I still got some problem while doing it, hmmm. 

2.1: Case Study 1: Traffic Management in UK

Traffic jam is the most common problem that happens in some countries that may affect to the populace. By doing this case study, the problem is expected to be managed based on how the government did in UK. Traffic problem in Cambridge, UK shows that the traffic jam in the oldest part of the cities caused by the narrow roads. Another thing that also caused the traffic jam is that over the past 40 years, the government had been decreasing the use of railway while the population in the city is increasing year by year.

Moreover, people who are coming to the city to work also increasing the population which affected to the traffic. Other than that, the increasing of population also come from travellers and tourism. Cambridge is also a city which got a lot of shopping centre and entertainment, that is why a lot of traveller are going there to find a reassurance.

Seeing through some points of view, heavy traffic congestion may caused to disadvantages and even worst. Particularly traffic congestion in rush hours can cause people and delivers are late and lost work for office workers. And also, traffic jam will cause a high pollution that affected to health.

According to the problem that had been described, there are some solutions which have done in Cambridge. For now, they have been doing the multi-storey car parks, cycle lanes and bus lanes, one way streets and pedestrianised areas. And in the future, they have a plan to do the road piercing and encouraging car sharing.

Building pedestrian areas could be effective enough to prevent traffic jam, people who passes through those areas should be walking instead of using any vehicles.

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Fig 2.1 Pedestrian Areas

For some of those ways to manage the traffic congestion, it could be the best way to solve the problem. For instance building pedestrians areas could be effective enough so people will be walking around to travel to that place instead of taking cars. And the other ways that had been done in Cambridge are also a good ways to avoid the traffic congestion.