| Summary |
In recent years, the number of private vehicles has grown rapidly, which has become one of the main causes of traffic congestion and air pollution in Taiwan metropolitan areas. The key to solve this problem is for the Traffic Management Department to use Traffic Management Strategies to guide the private vehicle users to transfer to public transportation or low-pollution vehicles.
This Project analyzes the domestic and international traffic management strategies to reduce traffic air pollution in metropolitan areas, and discusses the benefits and possible impacts of each strategy, in order to feed back the subsequent research planning. In addition, this Project collects and analyzes the socioeconomic conditions, transportation development, traffic air pollution emissions and other indicators in the metropolitan areas of our Country, classifies the Administrative Districts according to their characteristics, and conducts planning on the survey priority and survey plan, and manages questionnaire surveys.
In 2020, this Project took the priority to survey four Administrative Districts in the Taipei City and New Taipei City with 1,315 valid questionnaires completed in the form of face-to-face interviews, to explore the awareness of air pollution exposure by the commuters preferring to use private vehicles and the possible reactions of transportation management strategies on transportation vehicle choices, and conducted cross-analysis based on the socioeconomic conditions and characteristics of using transportation vehicles to understand the intention of different groups on management strategies. The survey results indicate that the key of affecting the choice behaviors for automobile users is the convenience of transportation vehicles, while the daily cost is the key of
affecting the motorcycle users. The key to promote the low-pollution vehicles is the stability of the transportation vehicles, popularity of charging stations, and subsidy for purchasing vehicles.
This Project held two Focus Group discussions, inviting experts and scholars, relevant traffic management departments, and private vehicle users to participate in discussions, so as to collect opinions from all parties and strengthen the qualitative analysis results. According to the respondents’ statement and analysis results, the surveyed Districts can effectively attract private vehicle users to transfer to public transportation with the promotion of transportation vehicle sharing and optimization of the existing bus network. In order to promote the research results, local traffic management departments are invited to participate in the promotion workshop to facilitate the implementation of follow-up research and survey works, and to encourage the local traffic management departments to apply the research results of this Project into future management plans. |
