interview done by Mr Seah

The interview will be conducted through a face to face interview with the businessman Mr Seah . Mr seah   is a businessman and he’s working hours is quite flexible as he’s appointment are mostly in the afternoon. Most of his appointments would be done on the phone with the overseas counter part The interview question The asked question about how he feels about the jam’s in Singapore during peak hours and non- peak hours. How it may or may not affect his business appointments.

Bussiness man:

1. Where is your working place?

UBI industrial area

2. What is your occupation?

                        Color sept business

                        Businessman/Salesperson

3. What do you feel about traffic jam?

I feel its annoying

4. Does traffic jam affect your job?

                       No, as I drive during non - peak periods

                       Yes, for my workers                         

5. If yes, can you give explanation?

As sometimes they would arrive late and thats affect the job scope as they have to rush project for deadline to be sent out                        

6. What do you do during traffic jam?

                        Most of the time I would listen to the radio or chat on the phone

7. How do you avoid traffic jam?

                       Traffic jam are unavoidable

8. When does traffic jam happen? Where?

Morning 8-11 mostly on all highways like TPE (Tampines Expressway), SLE(Seletar Expressway), CTE(Central Expressway) etc..

9. Do you have any recommendation to reduce traffic jam?

                        Widen the roads or reduce the number of cars

Case study on Us traffic jam

• United States
• Urban areas in the US are not adding enough capacity, improving management systems  well enough to keep congestion from growing larger.  Congestion is now major part of the transportation systems, affecting more of the trips and a greater portion of the average week in urban areas of all sizes just like the highways in Singapore.  Heavy traffic has  increased from 12 per cent to 40 per cent of peak period travel. Free-flowing traffic space is less than half of the amount in 1982, same as Singapore traffic jam  in the early 1970s where it started

• .Figure 1.2c. Congestion in the US has grown in towns and cities of all sizes

Congestion of grow due to population growth, because of that funding and major projects are put to ease the problem. Since the US has a lot of cities it takes 10 to 15 years for major projects to be completed. By the time numbers of vehicles  would have gone up and the trend would continue.

Congestion is more severe in larger cities like singapore as there are overcrowding number of people working in the city. It is not surprising that congestion is more severe in larger urban areas.  Congestion problems occur in many ways. Some congestion is determined by the layout of an area, some is determined by weather conditions, accidents and vehicle breakdowns. Traffic jam have a lot of impact on our life whether you are a student going to school, or a working adult.
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Better service of public transportation can provide more productivity from the existing system at relatively low cost. Some of these can be improve with the use information technology, some are the result of educating travelers about their options, and some are the result of providing a more wider views of traveling and development options than are currently available. 

Congestion does not have to be an all-day event. Finding solutions and funding sources that meet a variety of terms and condition is challenging enough without having to eliminate congestion in all locations. The solutions will vary not only by the state or city they are implemented in, but also by the type of development, the level of activity and constraints in particular sub-regions, neighborhoods and activity centers. Portions of a city might be able to construction solutions, other areas might use more demand management, efficiency improvements and land use pattern or redevelopment solutions.

Weblinks of traffic jam research

1.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219103102.htm


2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208254/Welcome-Sao-Paulo-The-city-traffic-jams-stretch-112-miles-day.html

This website show how bad are traffic jam and are top 12 in the world and tells me some of their thoughts on the issues on traffic jam.

3.http://www.topics-mag.com/edition11/tick-off-traffic.htm

This website describe how some some people from almost all over the world would feel.

4. http://writefix.com/?page_id=808

Thi website describe  what the causes are of traffic jam is population growth which have resulted in having more cars. One of it is also cause by commercial vehicles and trucks slowing moving and always driving on the wrong lane.

5. http://fasttrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/more-than-an-alternative-transportation-high-speed-rail-is-a-solution/

One of solution to solve traffic jam is high speed railway

My persona as a business women

 I imagine myself as a business women

Name:sheryl
Occupation: Salesperson own a printing business in tampines, self employed
Age :30
Lives at woodlands

As a business woman as well as a salesperson, i have many appointments to attend to. As I recently started my company, all my appointments usually begin at 9.30am
every morning. I get up at 6.30am to get ready and leave house at 7.15am to catch bus 168 at woodlands interchange. The bus would be packed with people and I
would have to wait for the 2nd bus which would come approximately every 10 minutes interval. This bus would have to make a stop at  Seletar Camp. This part of the journey usually takes the longest time.
As it will take a round-a-bout before the bus turns in, there will be alot of trucks coming through, causing congestion that would take about 15mins before the bus manages to get out
and head to TPE. TPE would be congested with many cars and lorries. By the time I reach tampines it would already be 10am. Due to the traffic jam, it caused me to be late by almost two and a half hours. I feel that this is very unproductive and time is being wasted. With such heavy traffic every morning, I feel that it has become an issue and is affecting my daily life significantly.

Traffic Jam

Traffic jam is a line or lines of stationary or very slow-moving traffic, caused by roadworks, an accident or heavy congestion and also in wet weathers. It happens also due to population rapid growth which causes high demand in cars. Traffic jams occur usually during peak hours in the morning and evening and also over the weekends as there is too much congestion. One of the most important promblems is parking. It is also the cause of traffic congestion as if there were more spaces to park there will be lesser congestions in the city area.

Roads does not have enough lanes to accomodate 969,910 vehicles which have already been causing serious congestions. A survey was done by .dailymail.co.uk for COMMUTER PAIN SURVEY'S WORST CITIES FOR DRIVING IN THE WORLD  rating us in the top 10 cities for the worst city to drive in. In order to ease the traffic, the singapore government have raised COE prices and it does not include car costs, also we are the first country to put an ERP almost all over town area.  

Long hours on the road has made drivers feel tired especially if they were to be stuck in a jam they tend to get frustrated as they have to concentrate on slow moving traffic. Besides that, they would tend to drive closely to the other vehicle and cause higher chance of an accident to occur. When they are stuck and are not able to move, they get anxious, feel restricted and regulated. They feel like they're trapped within a small area when the car can't really move yet it's still burning fuel, they feel powerless and irritated. Road rage also happen due to traffic jams and people  may get  aggressive or angry due to the behaviour of a driver of an automobile or other road vehicle. 

Taxi drivers feel that they lose quite abit of business as traffic jam happens and they feel sad as their livelihood depends on this job. I found that people tend to get easily frustrated and tired  if their time to travel was really long. Some drivers say during a traffic jam they would try to relax by listening to music or call a friend as there is no point getting angry as it would not improve traffic.

I found an article on traffic jam mystery  solved by a  mathematicians where they  show how  unexpected events such as a lorry (tractor trailer) pulling out of its lane on a dual carriageway (divided highway with median between traffic going in opposite directions). Their model revealed that slowing down below a critical speed when reacting to such an event, a driver would force the car behind to slow down further and the next car back to reduce its speed further still. The result of this is that several miles back, cars would finally grind to a halt, with drivers oblivious to the reason for their delay. 
The physics behind traffic jam as sometimes when  accident are clear  but there's still remain jam cause is by a person car stop then eventually all the cars behind would have to stop. The first car would have to speed up alittle and follow by the next to unclog the jam.

Reading alot on traffic jam have made me realise how we people get unhappy easily due to a jam and it spoils our day.
In a jam people just have to relax and give other cars sufficient space to one another  so that they do not have to worry about bumping the car infront or behind.