Social Entrepreneurship in Road Traffic Management with Respect to Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Abstract

The urban road traffic management planning is a prerequisite for sustainable urban Development and infrastructure that causes the substantial heterogeneity in transport costs and time across road transport modes. The need of the hour is to improve the urban road traffic management plan preparation and implementation of the overall management of Dhaka City transportation and civilization level, to adapt to sustainable development of the city and society as a whole.This paper identifies the cause and effect factors responsible for the congestion and traffic irregularities prevailing in the Dhaka City of Bangladesh. It also highlights the determinants for the proper “Dhaka traffic control management” (DTCM) such as proper traffic analysis, proper forecast, proper management in planning (engineering, management and political-fiscal) and lack of administrative assistance to the Society. The study emphasises the need for the technological forces that may influence and facilitate DTCM necessitating the pursuance of current empirical study. Our study reports that there exists a necessity for the relevant governmental agencies and other related agencies to look into these determinants to regulate and facilitate the overall control and management. However, the researcher as a social entrepreneur emphasizes on the budgetary allocation for the exclusive revamp of traffic control system only can reposition the city. Hence, governmental agencies ought to help DTCM by executing pragmatic financial assistance programs especially for the re-engineering which may overcome the discouraging factors impeding the growth of the garment export industry of the city – the main business of Dhaka City.