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“Transportation for A Better Life:
Smart Mobility for Now and Then”

23 August 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

1. Introduction

Traffic congestion and environmental pollution are the most persistent problems of big cities in
Vietnam such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. Public transport is always known as the best way to solve
these issues, however, in some cities having high population density and tending to concentrate in center like
Hanoi, efficient exploitation of public transport is very difficult because the number of vehicles accessing to
urban center every day is overload with Hanoi’s recent transport infrastructure. In order to solve this situation,
the application of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) [2, 3], especially P&R measure, has been
studied in Hanoi and Yen Nghia station is as the pilot study.

Figure 1: Yen Nghia station Figure 2: Current roof path toward from bus
waiting area to main building
First, P&R facilities have been appeared
long time ago. It is understood as transit places 2. Literature review
where people could transfer from private vehicles to
public transport. Each P&R lot is located in highly Kikuchi et al. (2019) [1] analyze usage of
congested corridor such as gateway area of city and Park and Bus Ride by motorcycle in Yen Nghia
station. The result shows that total travel time of this
equipped necessary infrastructure and facility to method is longer than travel time of private vehicle
operate P&R measure [7, 8]. In order to apply usage and the main reason why users choose P&R is
successfully this measure in Yen Nghia station, the cheap travel cost. Another reason is that there is
recent material facilities improvement of station, no parking place in the center and they feel secure
user attraction and combination of this solution with when park motorbikes in this station and then keep
other methods such as Transit Oriented going to their destination by bus. In addition, this
Development (TOD) is very essential.
study provides the main approach for users to the
In this study, researched team implement station, which is mainly within 4 km.
interview surveys and inspections to evaluate current Hai and Hiep [2] (2013) study applying
situation and expectation of passengers with Yen
Nghia station, hence, raising solutions to go up the TDM to Hanoi to minimize traffic congestion and
towards sustainable transportation. In this study, the
comfort of station and contribute to apply this authors show criteria to ensure the success of the
method successfully.
P&R project in Hanoi condition, piloting at bus route
No.6 in National Highway 1 (NH1). The given
criteria include ensuring users’ needs and
conforming to Hanoi’s management policies,
equipment requirements and fees. In addition, the
study provides passenger forecast data related to
access vehicles and proposes the regional

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