tailieunhanh - Transportation Demand Management: A Solution to Reduce Congestion and Towards a Sustainable Transportation in Hanoi

The paper presents an overview of TDM measures which have been applied worldwide, and to identify its possibility for applying in each specific local situation. Then, the paper discuss on the traffic situation in Hanoi, evaluate the current implementation of TDM measures in order to identify appropriate measures. The findings may help city agencies in better applying the right TDM solution at the right situations and thus result in reducing the traffic congestion towards a sustainable transportation in Hanoi as well in other similar cities in Vietnam and Asian countries. | The 5th ATRANS Symposium on Transportation for A Better Life Preparing for ASEAN Integration Bangkok 2012 Transportation Demand Management a Solution to Reduce Congestion and Towards a Sustainable Transportation in Hanoi Paper identification number SC7-006 Dinh VU HiEp1 Truong HOANG HAI2 Dinh VAN HIEP3 Institute of Planning and Transportation Engineering IPTE Tel Fax 84-4 3628-5578 1 Email dinhvuhiep@gmail. com 2 Email haitruonghoang@ 3 Email hiep. dinhv@ Abstract Urbanization has grown fast within the past decade especially in large cities like Hanoi Ho Chi Minh city and Da Nang city. The number of vehicle has been rapidly increased recently especially for the private cars. As a consequence traffic congestion has become the horrendous problems to cause a low quality of life for people in big cities in terms of travelling time delay economic lost air pollution culture degradation disturbance social activities. To solve these problems a transportation demand management TDM scheme addresses a variety of issues such as mitigation of traffic congestions reduction of energy consumption and exhaust gas emission in the transport sector. The TDM measure does not require too much change on transport infrastructure but it considers in promotion of modal shift demand suppression demand dispersal and efficient use of road space. In Hanoi TDM measures have been introduced such as reduction on-street parking restrictions on cyclos and staggered commuting. The paper presents an overview of TDM measures which have been applied worldwide and to identify its possibility for applying in each specific local situation. Then the paper discuss on the traffic situation in Hanoi evaluate the current implementation of TDM measures in order to identify appropriate measures. The findings may help city agencies in better applying the right TDM solution at the right situations and thus result in reducing the traffic congestion towards a sustainable transportation in Hanoi as .