Transportastion overview in Kathmandu

Transportation system consists of group activities as well as entities interacting with each other to achieve goal for transporting people and goods from one place to another. So, this system, hence, has to meet the perceived social and economic needs of the users. As these needs change with change in time, the service from the existing system becomes inadequate to serve the public interest. The major negative impact of the traffic problem is traffic congestion. It becomes severe whenever demand exceeds the capacity of transportation.

Kathmandu is one of such rapidly growing city where the crisis in almost every sector can be foreseen The Centralization policy of the Government has led to the high growth rate of population in Kathmandu Valley. The location of major facilities within Kathmandu Valley has compelled the citizens to travel Kathmandu for education, Health, services, business, refreshment, and to travel abroad. This rapid increase in population and frequent travelling pattern of the people has added the load in the public transportation system. Transportation is the backbone of development without which development activity is not possible. The present public transportation system prevalent in the Kathmandu valley is unsystematic, unreliable, polluting and uncomfortable.

The centralized policy of government has caused increase in opportunities for health, education and other services causing increase in population of Kathmandu city. Due to the fact of increasing population in the Kathmandu valley, it has witnessed excessive traffic congestion problem which can be easily encountered in most of the intersections. The current status of transportation system in Kathmandu Valley is quite alarming in the absence of well-organized system. The valley is experiencing various problems in transportation sector. The growth of vehicles and simultaneously lack of improvements of the existing facilities and traffic management have resulted in un-organized improvement of traffic thereby increasing congestion accidents and decrease in vehicle speed affecting the road capacity and creating air pollution as well. Thus, it is quite important fact to in-corporate about the study of public transportation for the systematic, reliable, comfortable public transport system in Kathmandu Valley.