Bangkok is widely known for its severe traffic congestion. The Thai
government advocates the concept of jobs and housing balance (JHB) as a strategy
for reducing traffic congestion in Metropolitan Bangkok. The basic idea is to
decentralize the jobs to the neighboring provinces so that the commuters would live
closer to their workplaces and thereby alleviate traffic congestion.
The main purpose of this research is to examine empirically the effectiveness
of JHB in reducing the severity of traffic congestion in the Bangkok Metropolitan
Region. For this purpose, three data sets derived from the Bangkok Metropolitan
Region Extended City Model (BMR-ECM) were obtained from the Office of the
Commission for the Management of Land Traffic and the National Statistical Office
of Thailand. Travel time index (TTI) was developed to measure congestion. In
addition to JHB, a number of land use variables were included in the analysis. They are population density, school density, and job accessibility index. Multiple
regression models of TTI as functions of JHB and other variables were estimated at
two geographic scales: subsector and traffic analysis zone (TAZ).
The study finds JHB is significant in influencing congestion levels in the
Bangkok Metropolitan Region. Other influential factors include the population
density, school density, and job accessibility. All of these factors are found to be
statistically significant in explaining the variation of traffic congestion at the traffic
analysis zone level, but not at the subsector level, however.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4339 |
| Date | 30 October 2006 |
| Creators | Lobyaem, Sonchai |
| Contributors | Rogers, George O., Zhang, Ming |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 4834535 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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