Bangladesh is a most densely populated country in the world. The Traffic jam is the main and common problem in the country, especially Dhaka and Chittagong district. Dhaka is mega city and Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh. More than twelve million people live in Dhaka and the population of Dhaka is increasing rapidly. So, many problems created by its huge population. Every day about seven hundred thousand rickshaws ply in road of Dhaka and the huge number of rickshaws is creating a Traffic jam in the city. Almost all the street is getting jammed by buses, CNG and rickshaws. Traffic jam has become a regular feature of Dhaka city. Traffic jam obstructed increasing our trade and commerce. If we out from home for office or school, we may face jam and only twenty minute way may take two hours because of the jam. So that we need more time to reach our destination and we lose our valuable time. The students also face problems to attend their class times. For Traffic jam we cannot complete our task write time so our trade and commerce affected. We cannot provide goods and material with in due time. We have to spend half of the day on the road if we want to go somewhere in the city. It also polluted our environment because many vehicles gathering together are created sound and air pollution.

1. Welcome

2. LOGAN Gazi Md Badruzzaman
ID: 171-19-1937
 Mehadi Hasan
ID:171-19-1970
 Al-Amin Prince
ID: 141-19-1539

3. Traffic jam
in Dhaka
City

4.  What is Traffic Jam
 Traffic jam in Dhaka city & Bangladesh
 Causes
 Solution
 What can I do?
 What can you do?

5. What is traffic jam ?
A situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have
stopped moving or are moving very slowly

6. Dhaka City and Congestion
 Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh.
 Population :More than 1.5 core people
 Dhaka is also one of the world's most densely populated cites.
 8th largest city in the world.
 400,000 cycle-rickshaws running on its streets every day, the
city is described as the Rickshaw Capital of the World.

7. 1) Rickshaw
2) Motor cycle
3) Taxi
4) Private Car
and
5) Public Bus
Transport media in Dhaka city

8. Public Bus, 30%
Rickshaw, 30%
Private Car,
25%
Taxi, 11%
Others,4%
Public Bus Rickshaw Private Car Taxi Others
Current traffic percentage in Dhaka

9. Time loss due to congestion
In this mega city, people on an average spend 2.20
hours in the traffic of which 1.15 hours are due to
traffic jam. It means they are loosing 1.15 hours
everyday due to traffic jam.
 More than 1000 million passengers
travel by road every day, worldwide.
If a passenger lose 1 minute
everyday , in traffic congestion,
total annual time loss is
700,000 YEARS !!!
Time loss due to
congestion
60%
Po
Tim

11.  Insufficient amount of roads.
 Poor Traffic Administration.
 Wrong Parking.
 Unfit Vehicles & Illegal License.
 Construction Works.
 Hawkers.
 No Alternative of Buses.
 Political Meeting and Rally
 Indifference of Government
 Unconsciousness of People
 Overtaking Tendency
 Uneducated Drivers
 Extra Private Cars
 Accident
ETC

12. Encroachment of roads and sidewalks
Street vendors, Hawkers and street
front shop owners occupy above 60%
of the 163-km footpaths of Dhaka City.
The sidewalks are also filled up by
construction materials, garbage or
even temporary houses of homeless
people or beggars. Very often
pedestrians are forced to walk on the
main roads instead of using the
sidewalks because of these reasons.

13. Violation of Traffic rules and regulations
There is a lack of education and consciousness among the
citizenry about the traffic rules. People who come to the city
from villages for employment, rickshaw pulling becomes the
most easily available job for them. They do not need any formal
training to start this profession. In most of the cases, they do not
even take a legal license.
Most of the time, the pedestrians crosses the busy streets even
if there is no crosswalk. People do not usually use the over
bridges or underpasses, which are constructed in the important
and busy intersections of the city.
The buses do not stop at the bus stops, they stop just at the
intersection points, and rickshaws always follow them. As a
result, the intersections of the busy roads always remain
crowded by the people and different types of vehicles.

14. City lay-out and over-population
The causes of traffic congestion in Dhaka city are
multifarious. Starting from the city itself, it is
observed that the skeleton, structure and lay-out
of Dhaka City are not well-planned and well-
directed. Dhaka is also a highly populated city.
More than one core people live here and the
figure is increasing day by day. This huge
population acts as an auto-catalyst of traffic
congestion in Dhaka City.

15. Inadequate and unplanned roads
Dhaka City has very inadequate road
networks. For a standard city, where the
minimum road requirement is 25%,
Dhaka has only 7.5% road of its total
area. 30% of this 7.5% road is also
occupied by the hawkers, salesman and
shopkeepers. A significant portion is
occupied by construction materials and
waste-containers of the City Corporation.
As a result, vehicles do not get sufficient
space to move on.

16. Heterogeneousvehiclesand
inadequatepublictransport
Dhaka is a city of heterogeneous vehicles. Human
puller to latest model automobile, mechanical to
non-mechanical, slow to fast-moving, nothing left on
the road of Dhaka. It is quite difficult to control all
these vehicles on the same road as they have
different speed capacity. Besides this, public
transport system in Dhaka city is not adequate and
properly-routed. Instead of big and spacious buses,
presence of large number of mini-buses and private
vehicles can only contribute to carry few passengers,
but not to reduction of traffic congestion.

17. Rail crossing
Everyday we are experiencing
movement of 74 trains to and
from Dhaka. On an average, it
takes five minutes to get the
clearance for each crossing. Thus
in one crossing, everyday the
vehicles stop for six hours that is
really difficult to offset.

18. Insufficient parking arrangement and road blockage
Limited parking arrangement is another major cause
of excessive traffic in Dhaka City. It has become a
regular practice to park the car on road. Even during
rush hours, people are seen loading and unloading
their vehicles on a busy road. City transports also stop
here and there without any valid reason. The three
major bus stations, Sayedabad, Gabtoli and Mohakhali
do not have sufficient capacity to accommodate all
the buses operating from here. A recent addition to
road blockage is the long queue of vehicles at CNG
stations, which is really difficult to overcome.

19. Insufficient amount
of roads

20. Poor Traffic Administration.

21. Wrong Parking.

22. Unfit Vehicles & Illegal License.

23. Hawkers.

24. No Alternative of Buses.

25. Overtaking Tendency

26. Unconsciousness of People

27. Political Meeting and Rally

28. Extra Private Cars

31. What Govt. Can Do…
Government Should Take Necessary Steps:
Our government should take many hard steeps to remove the problem.
1) Government should build up highway road, over bridge, build up alternative road etc.
2) Good car parking system and hard rules against those people who keep their vehicles
besides the road and other public place should be ensured by the government.
3) Hawkers who build up their business spot beside important places should be removed.
4) Old or expired vehicles should be removed from Dhaka city.

32. 5)Rickshaw should not run on important roads in Dhaka.
6)Hard rules could be imposed against those rich people whose family uses many vehicles
unnecessarily.
7) Government can order to transfer some of industries, offices, educational institutions,
hospitals outside the city.
8) We should be conscious and if we follow all traffic rules and regulations, we shall be
able to remove traffic jam from Dhaka city.
Government Should Take Necessary Steps:

33.  Infrastructure development.
 Express highways to be built.
 Private participation in road development.
 Low budget development of junctions.
 Reduction of Junctions.
 Widening of busy roads.
 More public transport systems.
 Implement Metro Rails in Metros and big cities
How to reduce Traffic Jam

35. Hawker less Pavement & Roads

36. Separate Lanes

37. Alternative Transport

38. Double Decker

39. Metro rail

40. Parking Lots

41. Car Pooling

42. Little More Conscious