Urban traffic management strategy for sustainable development in motorcycle dependent cities: Case study of Hanoi

Le Thu Huyen, An Minh Ngoc, Nguyen Thanh Tu, Nguyen Ngoc Doanh

Keywords: emission, urban transport, sustainable development

Abstract: The urban transportation system always faces with big issues in densely populated cities with the limitation of land resources. The problems is especially increasing in developing countries with rapid increase in the mobility demand to serve social-economics activities. The existing imbalance between supply and demand, which continues to increase rapidly, has put great pressure on urban people's lives, posing great risks such as traffic jams, environmental pollution, and accidents. traffic. To reduce traffic pressure, the current top solutions are such kinds of developing high-quality public transport services, encouraging city residents to use public transport, especially for basic trips such as going to work or school. The problem is that if urban traffic planning and management solutions are not user oriented, they may meet many problems in practical implementation with a lot of difficulties, and negative impacts as well. The article conducts research on (i) literature review on road users’ behavior of transportation mode selection; (ii) conducting the field survey on Hanoi case study of 04 scenarios of transportation management solutions; (iii) proposing policy recommendation for sustainable development.

Submission Number: 11