Traffic Impact Analysis of Re-scheduling Educational Institutes: A Case Study of Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka

Abstract

Efficient operation of different modes of transport along every road in a locality is a key factor from planning perspective. Educational institutions generate significant number of trips in different periods of a day. Dhanmondi Residential Area is one of the first planned areas of Dhaka city. But huge number of educational institutes is disrupting its general purposes. Traffic generation in opening and closing period of educational institutes at Dhanmondi disrupts traffic flow in full area. In three selected roads for volume survey traffic generation crosses 250 PCU in quarter-hourly interval at Dhanmondi area (Field Survey, 2012). A rescheduling was based on two different scenarios to equally distribute increased number of vehicles throughout the day. In road number 7/A and 11/A rescheduling brought quite positive result, but in case of Road 14/A distribution does not shows significant changes, because of the lower number of educational institutes. This scenario clearly depicts the importance of controlling number of educational institutes at Dhanmondi. Rescheduling can reduce the problem of traffic jam in few aspects, but decreasing the number of educational institutes is the only solution at present scenario.