Transportation System in Bangladesh Problems and Its Way out by Aadil Shaakir
Transport is an important part for any nation's economy. Since the liberation of our country the development of infrastructure within the country has progressed at a rapid pace, and today there is a wide variety of modes of transport by land, water and air. In contrast to practice in other nations, Bangladesh has four ministries responsible for transportation with the support of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA). With continued economic growth and development there are lot of traffic malfunctions are existing such road accident, rail accident and others with lost and injured lot of valuable lives which reaches people to vulnerability. Therefore this paper focuses to addressing the causes of transport problems with identifying the countermeasures for reducing vulnerability to bring up sustainable development. This slide made of discussion of five core points with mentioning statistical graphs and highlighting action policy for moving up.
Transportation System in Bangladesh Problems and Its Way out by Aadil Shaakir
- 1. Welcome to presentation On Transportation System in Bangladesh: Problems and Its Way out Presented By Nisaruddin Md Aadil Shaakir
- 2. Outlines Meaning of Transportation system Overview of Bangladesh Transportation System Problems in Present transportation system Countermeasures to way out transportation problems
- 3. Meaning of Transport & Transportation System Transport is a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods. A transportation system is a system for moving persons or goods consisting of three components like vehicle (equipment), the guide way (links and nodes that together from network) & operation plan (schedules, or timetables, crew assignments & control systems).
- 4. Overview of transportation System in Bangladesh Road Transport Rail Transport Water Transport Air Transport
- 5. Number Of Registered Motor Vehicles In Bangladesh (Year wise) Sl. Type of Vehicles Upto- 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 31/Sept/16 Grand No 2010 Total 1 Ambulance 2793 219 181 243 338 480 299 4553 2 Auto Rickshaw 126763 20423 23545 15697 19897 20000 8745 235070 3 Auto Tempo 14266 175 626 395 500 1095 891 17948 4 Bus 27778 1761 1439 1107 1488 2391 2978 38942 5 Cargo Van 3522 489 282 687 608 399 692 6679 6 Covered Van 5658 2354 1421 2271 2869 2354 2398 19325 7 Delivery Van 17063 1004 774 894 1176 1719 1645 24275 8 Human Hauler 6520 1152 715 385 225 1142 2376 12515 9 Jeep(Hard/Soft) 32286 2134 1569 1314 1870 3601 3813 46587 10 Microbus 66379 4051 3044 2537 4313 5224 4577 90125 11 Minibus 25644 276 249 148 256 323 360 27256 12 Motor Cycle 759257 114616 101588 85808 90685 240358 224139 1616451 13 Pick Up 32240 10460 7625 6553 9554 10257 8207 84896 (Double/Single Cabin) 14 Private Passenger Car 219830 12950 9224 10472 14699 21062 15728 303965
- 6. Number of Train according to class in Bangladesh Railway Serial no. Class of train East Area West Area Total 01 Intercity 46 40 86 2 Local/mixed/p&v 73 53 126 3 Mail express,comuter,Demu 82 50 132 4 Moitree 00 04 04 Total 201 145 348 Source: Bangladesh Railway
- 7. Information of inland waterways Length of inland waterways 2500 km Length of navigable waterways 9833 km Monsoon 5968km Dry season 3865km Least available depth range 3.90 to 1.50 meter Source: Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA)
- 8. Problems in Present transportation system Inadequate Number of Vehicle Problem in the management High-fare Long travel time Environmental Pollution Poor Quality of Transport Services: Unaware of the Regional Role of the Transport System Transport System Not Fully Integrated
- 9. Private Sectors Role Not Fully Defined Lack of Transportation Policy Illiteracy and Inability of Manpower: Corruption Institutional Deficiency Lack of Vision Accident
- 14. Countermeasures to way out transportation problems Increasing the number of registered vehicle Ensuring proper management system Reducing high-fare Strengthening Governance in Transportation Safer, Cleaner and Affordable Public Transportation Promote public-private partnerships (PPP) Give Bangladesh Railways more managerial autonomy Providing an adequate mechanism
- 15. Review, revise as necessary and adopt the Integrated Multi-Modal Transport Policy Reducing accident by strengthening governance in transportation Reducing corruption by implementing proper law in transportation Reducing long travel time by proper management Try to assuage environmental Pollution Decreasing Vehicle Growth Rate Providing high Quality of Transport Services Increasing public awareness by arranging seminar & workshop
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