Urban Transportation

• Urban transportation


  Mass transportation in an area with dense population
• Modes of urban transportation

  • Private vehicles
  • Public transport
• Urban transport vehicles in the Philippines

  • Jeepneys
  • Taxi
  • Tricycle/Tuktuk
  • Pedicab
  • Multicab
  • Habal-habal
  • Buses
  • Passenger SUV/Van
  • Metro Rail Transit
  • Airline Passenger Plane
  • Passenger Ship/Ferry

  
• Urban transportation may attract traffic congestion problem when not properly planned or when there is lack of transportation management and policies
• Transportation is one of the most sources of carbon emission in the world
• Transport authorities are trying their best to reduce the effect of noise pollution made by some vehicles specially motorcycles
• Due to higher supply demands in urban transport, volume of vehicles may flood the highways that will result to an increase of energy supply consumption such as oil or fuel
• Urban transportation planning


  • Evaluation and selection of highway or transit facilities to serve present and future land uses
• Urban transportation planning time horizons

  • Short term (1 to 3-year period)
  • Long term (over 20-year period)
• Short term urban transportation planning process

  1. Establish goal and objectives

  2. Inventory of existing conditions

  3. Analyze existing conditions

  4. Short range element
• Long term urban transportation planning process

  1. Establish goal and objectives

  2. Inventory of existing conditions

  3. Analyze existing conditions

  4. Forecast land use - population employment

  5. Forecast future travel/trips

  6. Develop and evaluate alternative transportation plans

  7. Prepare recommended plans and programs
• Elements of urban transportation planning process

  • Inventory of existing travel and facilities
  • Establishment of goals and objectives
  • Generation of alternatives
  • Estimation of project costs and travel demand
  • Evaluation of alternatives
  • Choice of project
• The Philippine public transport system is deemed unsafe, unhealthy, unreliable, and uncomfortable
• PUBs and PUJs serve 67% of demand but use 28% of road space
• PUJs dominate road-based public transport: 180,000 PUJs nationwide, 90% are 15 years old and above
• 17% ambient air pollution in Metro Manila and up to 80% in other cities due to PUJs
• PUJ passengers 10 times more likely to get into accidents than private car riders
• Php 2.4 billion in economic losses due to traffic congestion
• No government-led planning of the road transit network, mostly operator-initiated routes
• Franchises issued based on Route Measured Capacity (RMC), which is route-based only and doesn't consider road capacity constraint
• Widespread competition among various transport modes, overlapping routes, no hierarchy of modes, low-capacity vehicles in high-demand areas, leading to reduced road capacity, prevalence of low/over supply of public transport
• On-street competition leads to accidents, chaos in the streets, and traffic violations
• The PUV modernization program aims to modernize the current PUV fleet, reform and consolidate the industry, move towards low emission PUVs, do route rationalization boosted by technology, improve welfare of commuters and encourage modal shift, and improve standards of living of drivers, operators, and their families
• PUV requirements are based on existing DTI-BPS Philippine National Standards and Clean Air Act
• Route rationalization is performed through data analysis to understand supply and demand
• The PUV modernization program is a transformational large-scale initiative and the largest non-infra flagship project of President Rodrigo Duterte