Insights into the socio-economic impacts of traffic congestion in the port and industrial areas of Chittagong city, Bangladesh

Fattah, Md. Abdul; Morshed, Syed Riad; Kafy, Abdulla Al

doi:10.1016/j.treng.2022.100122

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“…It indicates that the development of factor market imposes some pressures on transportation aspects. The reason may be that population concentrations, together with the rapid growth of urban civilian automobiles, lead to heavily burdened city roads and severe traffic congestion (Fattah et al, 2022). Besides, the traffic volume and the number of docks in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River have increased rapidly, and ships have piled up at the mouth of the Yangtze River, causing serious congestion.…”

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An inquiry into urban carrying capacity of sustainable development demonstration belt of China: Multiscale evaluation and multidimensional interaction

Tan

Gong

Niu

et al. 2023

Sustainable Development

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How to seek multiregional sustainable development within planetary boundaries depends on the scientific inquiry into urban carrying capacity from multiscale evaluation and multidimensional interaction. Using a typical region moving forward on the sustainable development demonstration belt of China, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), as a case study, a new integrated framework of multiscale evaluation

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An inquiry into urban carrying capacity of sustainable development demonstration belt of China: Multiscale evaluation and multidimensional interaction

Tan

Gong

Niu

et al. 2023

Sustainable Development

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“…Similarly, Biswas et al (2021) have drawn attention to the urgent need for preservation action in Chattogram city due to the alarming threat to its floral resources caused by rapid and unplanned urbanization and anthropogenic activities. Fattah et al (2022) identified factors causing urban congestion, costing $2.01 million/day, emphasizing the need for sustainable transportation and policies. Furthermore, industrial cities such as Chattogram can severely impact public health due to air pollution and directly affect adjacent societies (Yadav et al, 2022).…”

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Failing to attain sustainable development in Bangladesh: A potential comprehensive strategy for sustainability

Kaiser

2023

Sustainable Development

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The study analyzes the underlying reasons and ensuing consequences of Chattogram city's development in Bangladesh, which diverges from the principles of sustainable development. This research employs mixed-method approaches incorporating primary data to achieve its objectives. The primary data is based on a survey, interview, the author's experience, and participatory observation in Chattogram city. Furthermore, it critically examines the existing literature to develop a theoretical understanding of Chattogram city's sustainable development and its sustainable environmental nexus.The results indicate that the expansion of Chattogram city's urbanization and industrialization is proceeding at a rapid pace; however, it is occurring in an uncoordinated and unsustainable manner that neglects environmental protection. Consequently, the city's development falls short of aligning with environmental sustainability and is liable to induce negative ramifications on the environment, human health, biodiversity, and climate. The study pinpoints several factors contributing to environmental degradation, including environmental mismanagement, non-existence of a master plan, environmental illiteracy, absence of carbon emission objectives, and haphazard industrialization and urbanization. Importantly, the issue has been exacerbated due to the inadequate focus on sustainability in the developmental process. Therefore, the findings of this research indicate that a sustainable development perspective is required to comprehend and address the issue of environmental degradation in Chattogram city. In addition, the comprehensive sustainable development strategy and policy recommendations proposed in this study are likely to be efficacious in curbing environmental degradation in Chattogram and other developing cities.

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“…This is so due to the increase in carbon emissions into the atmosphere, a direct implication of fossil fuel-based motorized transport systems popularly used in most cities and urban areas. While traffic congestion affects both the most developed [10] [18] and least developed countries [2] [7] [13] [15] [21], the consequences on the latter are more severe given that more often than not, the under pressure motorized road transport infrastructure in underdeveloped countries and largely lacking.…”

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Characterizing Peak-Time Traffic Jam Incidents in Kampala Using Exploratory Data Analysis

Hamza¹,

Yahya²,

Kasule³

et al. 2023

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Traffic congestion is associated with increased environmental pollutions, as well as reduced socio-economic productivity due to significant delays in travel times. The consequences are worse in least developed countries where motorized road transport networks are often inefficiently managed in addition to being largely underdeveloped. Recent research on traffic congestion has mostly focused on infrastructural aspects of road networks, with little or no emphasis at all on motorists' on-the-road behavior (MB). The current study thus aimed to bridge this knowledge gap by characterizing traffic jam incidents (TJI) observed over a period of 80 days in Uganda's Capital City, Kampala. MB as well as road network infrastructural factors such as road blockage (RB), were captured for each of the observed TJI. A total of 483 peak-time TJI were recorded, and exploratory data analysis (EDA) subsequently performed on the TJI dataset. EDA involved Hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) and K-means clustering of the TJI dataset, as well as a detailed descriptive statistical analysis of both the entire dataset and the emerging TJI clusters. A highlight finding of this study is that 48.2% of the observed TJIs were as a result of on-the-road motorist behavior. Furthermore, the intervention of traffic police officers in a bid to regulate traffic flow was equally responsible for 25.9% of the TJIs observed in this study. Overall, these results indicate that whereas road infrastructural improvement is warranted in order to improve traffic flow, introducing interventions to address inappropriate on-the-road motorists' behavior could alone improve traffic flow in Kampala, by over 48%. Additionally, in-order to effectively regulate traffic flow in Kampala and other least developed cities with similar traffic congestion management practices, motorists' on-the-road behavior ought to be factored into any data-driven mechanisms deployed to regulate traffic flow and thus potentially significantly curbing traffic congestion.

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Insights into the socio-economic impacts of traffic congestion in the port and industrial areas of Chittagong city, Bangladesh

Cited by 42 publications

References 24 publications

An inquiry into urban carrying capacity of sustainable development demonstration belt of China: Multiscale evaluation and multidimensional interaction

An inquiry into urban carrying capacity of sustainable development demonstration belt of China: Multiscale evaluation and multidimensional interaction

Failing to attain sustainable development in Bangladesh: A potential comprehensive strategy for sustainability

Characterizing Peak-Time Traffic Jam Incidents in Kampala Using Exploratory Data Analysis

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