Name: Gabriel Gómez Estrada

Course: 511

OUTLINE

THESIS: ways to improve the public transport

Topic sentence: Reduce traffic in the city center.

 link outlying areas together

 try to use the public buses

Topic sentence: Minimise the number of stops station

 Stops and stations improves the efficiency of public transport

Topic sentence: Priority to public transport at traffic signals.

 Deploying traffic engineering mechanism

Conclusion

 Reducing traffic congestion at city streets could be done by implementing a

number of strategies
 Another means of reducing traffic congestion is by providing feeds and data
from public transport systems freely to commuters
Ways to improve the public transport

Nowadays traffic is a major problem for big cities. If we do some effort to reduce the
amount of traffic then a pollution free and comfortable living will created. For
example, in Singapore everybody uses public transportation. By the usage of public
transportation, Singapore has no traffic problema

Reduce the traffic in the city centre is a one way to improve the transport. How would
we do?

Linking outlying areas together. In the first instance, it helps people who shouldn’t be
at the city centre but needed to pass through because the outlying areas are not
connected together and, thus, reduce congestion at the centre. Try not to use the
personal car for short distances helps with the road movement during peak hours.

Minimise the number of stops/stations

Stops and stations improves the efficiency of public transport but there should be a
balance between enabling accessibility with more stops or stations and reducing the
costs of operation by increasing transit speed or ensuring trips are covered in time.
Therefore, care should be taken to ensure that stops and stations are located on
streets to balance accessibility by commuters on one hand and reduce operating costs
on the other hand.

Priority to public transport at traffic signals

Giving priority to public buses and trams at traffic signals is an excellent way to
improve the operating efficiency by increasing the travel time of these means of public
transport. This could be done by deploying traffic engineering mechanism whereby a
traffic signal turns green at the sight of a public transport at an intersection.

Reducing traffic congestion at city streets could be done by implementing a number of

strategies such as providing lanes dedicated specially for the use of public transport,
deploying strict regulations such as parking and turn restrictions, and the use of
innovative ideas such as queue bypasses or queue jumps. Another means of reducing
traffic congestion is by providing feeds and data from public transport systems freely
to commuters to educate and help them avoid areas of traffic congestion and, hence,
improve the system through making users more informed.