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How can i reduce traffic congestion using GPS device?

i live in a third world country (Dhaka, Bangladesh). dhaka is the capital of bangladesh. it’s really a jam pron country. our traffic monitoring system is human based. so, i need complete system chat or any thing like that. thanks in advance.

I live in Dhaka too and I’m getting frustrated for the huge traffic jam that we experience here in workdays. I was in Iran 1977-79 & the traffic jam of Tehran was notorious in those days standard. There were so many good roads and some flyovers, but the capital was bogged down due to congestions on the road. Same thing repeated in Bangkok and many other big cities of the world, even though these cities & countries have much superior road and traffic signals with police supervision than what miserable condition we have here in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To compound with our miseries the V.V.I.P. entourages (mostly the President & Prime Minister-maximum) would shut-down such congested road so that their convoy can go at 100km/hr in free roads to attend ‘important’ functions, one of these were party’s (Awami League) function held at China Bangladesh Friendship Hall (now renamed to Banga Bandhu…, a generic Prefix in these days for naming anything important).

I suggest that all the Schools are shifted within suitable distance of each residential areas, like Dhanmondi, Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Uttara, Mogh Bazar, Khilgaon, Mirpur, Mohammadpur etc. City Bus services for students would be made available so that parents need not to send car, rickshaw, scooter & such transport for each student’s movement.

The second alternate is maximise use of Circular Waterways (which has been abandoned in these days), circular-road, circular-train etc so that reasonable number of people can get access to the point of their business coming from outside periphery of the city, rather crisscrossing the busy streets to reach their destinations.

We need to have many more flyovers and under/overpass to make a dent to reduce traffic congestions. The present railway tracks extending upto Kamalapur Rail Station is bone of contentions in our traffic jam scenario. You would find that some 5 to 10 boggies (local or express or goods trains) are hurtled out at a slower pace while the level-crossing gates are kept down for some 10 to 20 minutes to the annoyance of the users of roads. There were plan to have flyovers at major level crossings, but you can see that the government is yet to have one placed at Kakoli (near the Army Stadium) level crossing that is straddled on our major highway leading to Airport.

Btw, have you noticed how the heart of our road system has been ‘controlled by the Army installations and its police at Cantonment, BDR at Pilkhana and also Ansars at Khilgaon? Is it necessary to have such forces living and doing their exercises (PT Parade etc) when hungry and inconvenient people are in traffic jams and they have ownership of the major roads? Who will shove these giants away from busy city areas? Only the Police barracks are necessary and let them have it at their present places at Rajarbagh, but then also they need not to have that large real estate occupied for Parade ground and such ceremonial events.

Hope we are having better days ahead, but very doubtful. A complete system may not come in a ‘package’, but small improvements in existing network with major infusion of money to modernize the road & railway infrastructures would one day minimize the unbearable situation those are prevailing ow.