Urban transport planning of General Santos City

• Main Authors: Guillermo, Victor Gerardo G., Lagmay, Abigai L., Marinduque, Christopher Brandl B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: General Santos City (Philippines); Civil Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7832
• Institution: De La Salle University

General Santos City has a problem with regard to the service of tricycles in the city. Due to their proliferation, there is a need for the sub division of the city into several zones that would limit the area of service coverage of tricycles to a specific zone. Tricycles have been in the road for a long time and due to the absence of fixed routes, they have been the cause of many traffic problems such as traffic congestion in major intersections of General Santos City. With the implementation of a fixed zone tricycle system, traffic jams in major road could be avoided which would result in a faster travel time and could help provide order in the city's public transport system. The study involves gathering the opinion of commuters and drivers about the transportation system of the city. Using EMME software, a model of the city was simulated in determining the area that has the biggest amount of trips. From there, a model was made where the proposed zoning system was simulated. The survey showed that commuters and drivers would prefer to have zones for tricycles in the city. The urban transport modeling showed that the volume of vehicles is higher with most trips using the tricycles when they travel in the city. With the study of the choice of mode, it was observed that the tricycles were really the most used type of transport in General Santos city. The volume counts also showed that tricycles have the highest volume passing through a section as compared to other mode transports Analyzing the model without the fixed zones, a new formulated zoning for General Santos city was proposed which is more suitable in terms of vehicular flow, travel speed, and travel time.