The Project, How to Reduce Traffic Jam of

Dhaka CityProject Management

Content of discussion • Introduction• Objectives• The Possibility of Metro Rail Reducing

Traffic Jam• Indicators of achievement• List of key outputs• List of main activities • Presentation of core components• Proposed Metro Rail Route• Project Implementation • Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting• Problem Tree, Stakeholders and

Stakeholder Analysis

• Conclusion

Introduction & Objectives

• Traffic jam is obstructing trade and commerce and consume the most valuable time of human.

• More than twelve million people live here, population growth affected Dhaka city

• More than 7 hundred thousand rickshaws play on the city road, but only 75 thousand have legal number which creates traffic jam.

• Illegal parking is another reason for traffic jam. • Government of Bangladesh should decide to implement the

Dhaka Metro Rail Project. • Development Objective key to reduce traffic jam and make it

efficient, economically viable, environment friendly.• Immediate objective - Main objective is to provide a rail based

mass transit connectivity to people within an approach distance of 1 to 2 K.m ;

• To provide proper interchange facilities for connectivity to neighboring areas like Gazipur, Chittagong Highway, etc.

To reduce traffic jam we can take steps such as:• Have a good public transport system so people would use

it• Ban rickshaw from the main roads of Dhaka• Good traffic system• Good lane system• Traffic police should do their duty properly• Use zebra cross and foot over bridge• Respect the law• Metro rail • Infrastructure development• Express highways to be built• Private participation in road development• Low budget development of junctions• Widening of busy roads• More public transport systems• Develop waterways wherever possible• Expand Railway network.

Most effective way to Reducing Traffic Jam by Metro Rail

• from Uttara to Jatrabari will take about 45 minutes and cost Tk 50.

• carry some 60,000 people an hour at peak times at Tk 2.50 per km

• require an estimated $1.7 billion • implemented within next four years

Indicators of achievement

• Indicators of achievements are a combination of outcome and output indicators, allowing an assessment of how the project has progressed.

• Outcome Indicators –• Provides rail based connectivity throughout Dhaka

City.• Reduces the journey time from 120 minutes to 45

minutes, between Uttara and Jatrabari.• Provides rail based access to the EPZs and Other

commercial developments

List of key outputs• . List of key outputs• Modern and improved transit system• Reduction on travel time from one area to another

area• Special transit facility the students of universities

collages & schools.• Low cost transit. • Allows 60,000 passenger to transit at once• Stops and Routes from Uttara to Jatrabari• Number of new employment opportunity will

increase.• Hassel free transportation on the road.

List of main activities• Need assessment analysis to upgrade the existing

transportation system.• For construction of a metro rail, $2-billion project

with invitation for tender bidding to build a 32.5km elevated expressway on public private partnership (PPP) basis.

• Training/Workshop with civil engineer and transport expert.

• Awareness campaign among civilians, students about the potentials of using new metro rail system. 

Presentation of core components

Route length of 32.5 km

No. of stations – 8

All stations are elevated.

All stations will have good interchange.

All stations are of side platform configuration.

All the stations will have platforms at an average height of 12 - 13m, concourse will be provided at an intermediate level which has ticketing and other facilities.

All stations will be provided with escalators for accessing concourse and platform levels.

Stations will be provided with automatic fare collection system and will be access controlled.

Lifts & other facilities have been provided for physically challenged

Project Implementation

• The Project will be implemented on Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) basis through Public Private Partnership (PPP).

Particulars Amount

Project Cost Tk. 1,500 cr

Capital Contribution Tk. 450 cr

Debt Equity Ratio 70:30

Construction Period 2012-17

Commencement of Operations 2017

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting

• Monitor and evaluate the progress o f the Project and prepare Project reports on the basis of the indicators agreed with BRTC. Each report shall cover the period of one calendar year, and shall be furnished to BRTC within 50 days after the end of each period.

Problem tree

Objective tree

Conclusion

• It is quite difficult to imagine that basic transport services can be provided for a metropolis with 10 million people without reliable mass transit system. Changes in transport technology, have over time, exerted a strong influence upon the shapes and forms of the urban areas. It will also attract the politicians, public representatives and the policy maker to push these actions forward as mitigation measure