Well, this is not Yet Another Blog for complaining traffic conditions in Bengalooru or misleading the reader by suggesting some stupid ideas that everyone knows it doesn't work. If that's the case what's the content of this post. Well, I do speak about the traffic conditions in Bengalooru but with a different perspective. I do put some light on some so called solutions and try to show that these things doesn't work.
Before going into what Traffic conditions in Bengalooru let me share what I think about Traffic. In computer networks, "Congestion" occurs when a link is carrying more data than it can carry leading to "Packet loss" or " Queueing Delay" etc. Think about Road also as a link carrying some data, now what happens more vehicles try to go at a time than the width of the road? if, all the vehicles go with same speed then that's fine, otherwise what happens is "Slow Moving Traffic".
Q. Is it the width of the roads?
A. No, definitely no. It might have been the reason. But looking at the rate at which vehicles are increasing even if you keep on widening roads some day it wouldn't enough.
Q. Is it the poor architecture of the city?
A. Yes, but to some extent.
Q. Is it the Traffic Controlling System in the city?
A. No, the work done by Bangalore City Traffic Police is pretty good.
Q. Is it the BMTC buses blocking most of the available bandwidth of the road?
A. If the same question was asked a month before then I might have said yes, but, this time it's a no. And BMTC bus strike this September has revealed that they are not the true culprits behind traffic problems. People believed that there would be less traffic on that day, but it was the other extreme. The reason is fairly simple people used their private vehicles to travel leading to traffic problems.
Q. Is it people who travel in private vehicles?
A. Finally, you got it right. But I just don't blame them it's also the pedestrians who add to the traffic problems.
Q. But, why is it so?
A. The answer is simple, "No One Follows Traffic Rules". Before explaining my point let me answer one more question.
Q. Can congestion be avoided or the problem can be solved?
A. NO. Congestion cannot be avoided nor the problem can be solved.
If we look at our infrastructure, in most of the localities the width of the road is 40ft. But if we look at the vehicle density, then anyone can say that there can't be "Smooth(actually it's Fast) Traffic flow". The problem is the varying speed of the vehicles.
Just imagine if all the vehicles moved with same speed, there were no overtakings as a result everyone by default followed a single lane. Even if you cannot avoid the "Slow movingness" but there's no "Chaos" in the system and the system is "Deterministic". These are the characteristics of a good network.
But what's happening is everyone are in hurry, they want to reach their destination early. So, they don't care about "Traffic Rules". This brings in chaos in the system and there is utter non-determinism in the model. This makes the model useless.
If everyone stops using their private vehicles and they commute using public transport available, that would bring down the bandwidth problem a lot. Also, if everyone cares for their co-travellers and drives responsibly, then there would be no chaos and system would move towards determinism.
There's no escape from "Traffic Congestion" or "Slow-Moving Traffic" but we could make it "Smooth-Moving Traffic" if only everyone followed traffic rules and drove responsibly.
Before going into what Traffic conditions in Bengalooru let me share what I think about Traffic. In computer networks, "Congestion" occurs when a link is carrying more data than it can carry leading to "Packet loss" or " Queueing Delay" etc. Think about Road also as a link carrying some data, now what happens more vehicles try to go at a time than the width of the road? if, all the vehicles go with same speed then that's fine, otherwise what happens is "Slow Moving Traffic".
If that's the case what are the causes for congestion..
A. No, definitely no. It might have been the reason. But looking at the rate at which vehicles are increasing even if you keep on widening roads some day it wouldn't enough.
Q. Is it the poor architecture of the city?
A. Yes, but to some extent.
Q. Is it the Traffic Controlling System in the city?
A. No, the work done by Bangalore City Traffic Police is pretty good.
Q. Is it the BMTC buses blocking most of the available bandwidth of the road?
A. If the same question was asked a month before then I might have said yes, but, this time it's a no. And BMTC bus strike this September has revealed that they are not the true culprits behind traffic problems. People believed that there would be less traffic on that day, but it was the other extreme. The reason is fairly simple people used their private vehicles to travel leading to traffic problems.
Q. Is it people who travel in private vehicles?
A. Finally, you got it right. But I just don't blame them it's also the pedestrians who add to the traffic problems.
Q. But, why is it so?
A. The answer is simple, "No One Follows Traffic Rules". Before explaining my point let me answer one more question.
Q. Can congestion be avoided or the problem can be solved?
A. NO. Congestion cannot be avoided nor the problem can be solved.
If we look at our infrastructure, in most of the localities the width of the road is 40ft. But if we look at the vehicle density, then anyone can say that there can't be "Smooth(actually it's Fast) Traffic flow". The problem is the varying speed of the vehicles.
Just imagine if all the vehicles moved with same speed, there were no overtakings as a result everyone by default followed a single lane. Even if you cannot avoid the "Slow movingness" but there's no "Chaos" in the system and the system is "Deterministic". These are the characteristics of a good network.
But what's happening is everyone are in hurry, they want to reach their destination early. So, they don't care about "Traffic Rules". This brings in chaos in the system and there is utter non-determinism in the model. This makes the model useless.
If everyone stops using their private vehicles and they commute using public transport available, that would bring down the bandwidth problem a lot. Also, if everyone cares for their co-travellers and drives responsibly, then there would be no chaos and system would move towards determinism.
There's no escape from "Traffic Congestion" or "Slow-Moving Traffic" but we could make it "Smooth-Moving Traffic" if only everyone followed traffic rules and drove responsibly.
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