TRAFFIC PROBLEMS FACED BY STUDENTS WHILE COMING TO COLLEGE

TITLE:

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS FACED BY STUDENTS WHILE COMING TO COLLEGE

AUTHORS:

Meghana Savratkar, Vinay Kakade, Vansh Nimkar.

INTRODUCTION:

Understanding the impact of traffic congestion faced by students while coming college which leads to frustration, late remarks, fuel waste ages, result into less concentration among students during lectures due to which their overall productivity gets decline. Students absenteeism has increased subsequently, their willingness to attend lectures has reduced.

OBJECTIVES:

To understand the underlined issues of the problem.

LITERATURE REVIEW:

  1. Mun & Yoshikawa (1993) writes about a model assuming a more realistic forms of production function than existing models and introduces transport network and traffic congestion as agglomeration diseconomies.

 

  1. Palm-Forster & Duke (2019) says about a classroom exercise for undergraduate students that illustrates the problem of congestion externalities and shows how tolls can be used to improve social welfare when congestion externalities exist.

 

DATA COLLECTION:

For the above problems five questions were framed to be answered on Likert’s scale with one to five points. Hundred students from Kohinoor Business School surveyed and for each question which was coded as one to five, mean, standard deviation, standard error and t-stats was calculated.

DATA ANALYSIS:

Sr. no

QUESTIONS

MEAN

STANDARD DEVIATAION

STANDARD ERROR

T-STATS

RESULTS

1

I encounter heavy traffic during the hours when college is in session.

3.61

1.30

0.13

4.69

POSITIVE

2

I usually spent around 20 minutes stuck in traffic.

3.3

1.31

0.13

2.28

POSITIVE

3

I encounter traffic due to construction work.

3.73

1.33

0.13

5.48

POSITIVE

4

I’m often late for college.

3.03

1.34

0.13

0.22

NEUTRAL

5

Traffic congestion often leaves me feeling frustrated and impatient.

3.82

1.23

0.12

6.69

POSITIVE

At 95% of confidence level, the t-stats of question no. 1, 2, 3 & 5 is more than 1.96, thus it is accepted positively and the t-stats of question no. 4 lies between -1.96 and 1.96, thus it is accepted neutrally.

CONCLUSIONS:

  1. People always encounter heavy traffic during the hours when college is in session.
  2. People always spent around 20 mins stuck in traffic.
  3. People always encounter traffic due to construction work.
  4. People getting late for college is neutral.
  5. Traffic congestion always leave people feeling frustrated and impatient.

 

REFERENCES:

  1. Mun, S., & Yoshikawa, K. (1993). Communication among firms, traffic congestion and office agglomeration*. Annals of Regional Science, 27(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581833
  2. Palm-Forster, L. H., & Duke, J. M. (2019). An endogenous equilibrium game on traffic congestion externalities. Journal of Economic Education, 50(1), 57–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2018.1551095

 

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