Evaluation of Traffic Facility Projects in Metropolitan Area

  • 2009-11-19
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  As the rapid progress of urbanization, a city has come to maintain the very close relationships with the neighboring cities and surrounding rural areas. And the living zones of citizens are being expanded along with the geographical expansion of city. Because the passages of citizens are being widely formed regardless of administrative regions, rapid increases in the longway transport demand.

However the traffic administrations are has been considered to be independent, according to the administrative regions of cities and provinces. For solving these problems, the Ministry of Construction and Transportation has executed the traffic facility projects in metropolitan area. nevertheless these projects have concrete purpose, several problems have been pointed out through evaluation.
According to the research, the results of the projects turned out to be obscure. These projects are just focusing on construction of roads and railways. Traffic problems could be improved not only through construction of roads and railways, but also through management of transportation demands and improvement of traffic signal system, intersection or public transportation. In terms of cost-effectiveness, it is necessary to provide a total policy exam to solve the traffic problems in metropolitan area.