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Title:

Urban Transportation in Yangon, Myanmar: Evidence from Large-Scale Surveys

Accession Number:

01551104

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper reports on the current traffic conditions and discusses the issues regarding the future direction of the urban transportation system in Yangon, Myanmar. Traffic data were collected through eleven local surveys covering the city of Yangon and a part of six adjacent townships. These surveys were implemented by the Japan International Cooperation Agency from February 2013 to August 2013. The Person Trip Survey, one of the eleven surveys conducted, collected the daily travel diaries of 11,330 households in the survey area. The surveys revealed the similarity and uniqueness in the urban transportation problems and policies in Yangon. Yangon has suffered from traffic congestion, long travel time, poor public transportation service, mobility gap between high and low income individuals, and serious traffic accidents, which are typical problems in developing cities. On the other hand, Yangon has introduced unique transportation policies: a motorcycle and bicycle ban and regulation on the import of vehicles, which contributed to a reduction in car usage in Yangon. However, the effectiveness of these unique policies may be questionable in the future due to the recent rapid changes in socio-economics and socio- demographics in the city. Therefore, further issues are presented including the establishment of an institutional system for better implementation, and an introduction of a financial scheme for the feasible funding of transportation infrastructure investment.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-1162

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kojima, Momoko
Futose, Takayoshi
Phan, Le Binh
Kato, Hironori

Pagination:

14p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Rangoon (Burma)

Subject Areas:

Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-1162

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:28PM