Identification of road congestion factors at Jalan Parameswara, Bandar Hilir, Malacca

Abstract

Bandar Hilir is well known as the famous tourism destination in Malacca state. The strategic location near with Malacca Raya and Banda Kaba has own historical buildings and heritage sites make the main attraction for tourists either from local or foreign. There are several roads that linkage in this tourism city area which are Jalan Parameswara, Jalan Bendahara and Jalan Merdeka. Every year, increasing number of tourist either local tourists or foreign tourists are coming with their family, friends or come as a single trip. These situation makes linkage roads that are connected in this tourism city are crowded and having congested with tourists either they comes with private vehicles or by using public transport. Hence, the research using direct observation survey about this road area is important in order to determine the main factors that contribute into traffic congestion which happened in Jalan Parameswara, Bandar Hilir and the effective solution to fix out the problem. In analysis finding, the main factors that have been identified into contribution of road congestion at Jalan Parameswara, Bandar Hilir were on street parking, inadequate parking space, route network and inefficient public transport services at research area. The solution and recommendation were discussed in last chapter regarding improving and reducing road congestion problem by doing many initiatives such as improvement of route network, promoting using public transport and provide better facilities, compound for those park at roadside area, high parking charging and promoting non-motorized transport such as riding bicycle in research area.