Traffic congestion occurs when there are more vehicles on the road than the road's carrying capacity can handle, resulting in slow travel speeds and long vehicle queues. Singapore attempts to manage congestion by using the concept of carrying capacity to identify its causes, such as too many vehicles for the road infrastructure, and implementing policies like electronic road pricing to regulate vehicle volume.

1. traffic congestion

2. objective
1) Use the concept of carrying
capacity to identify the causes of
traffic congestion
2) Use the concept of carrying
capacity to understand how
Singapore attempts to manage
traffic congestion

3. (add in notes)

4. what is traffic congestion?
situation where there are more
vehicles than the road can handle

5. what does it look like?

6. Slow
travelling
speeds
(these cars were
barely moving!)
long queues

7. why is there traffic congestion?

8. 1) Go to http://maps.google.com

9. 2) Put your cursor over here.

10. 3) Click on “Traffic”

11. 3) Click on “Traffic”
This is the
legend -
roads
coloured
green are
fast, red
are slow

12. Select
option
“Typical
traffic”

13. These are
to see the
traffic
conditions
on different
days
This slider will allow
you to see the traffic
condition at different
times of the day

14. Answer questions (a)(i) to
(a)(iii) of Section A on
google form:
http://goo.gl/forms/Yi332TJ7VX
Once you’re done with
Section A, move on to the
next slide

15. 1) Go to http://www.onemap.sg
2) Put your mouse over the button shown below

16. 3) This pop-up menu will appear.

17. 4) Click on “URA Master Plan 2014”

18. 5) This is what you’ll see. Have a sense of where are these areas:
Offices / commercial areas Residential Industrial

19. 6) Put your mouse over “services” button and click on
“Traffic Query”
Offices / commercial areas Residential Industrial

20. 7) Click on “Accept”
Offices / commercial areas Residential Industrial

21. 8) Click on “Electronic Road Pricing”
Offices / commercial areas Residential Industrial

22. Complete the google form
by answering questions (b)
(i) to (b)(iii) of Section B
Once you’re done, submit
and follow the instructions
there!