Assessment Of Traffic Congestion Within Guagua Town Proper As A Basis for Road Rerouting Plan

Abstract

This study is an assessment of the current road rerouting scheme in Guagua that will decongest the traffic situation within Guagua Town Proper. It utilized the descriptive-normative method of research. Important data and needed information were gathered through a survey questionnaire that was personally constructed by the researchers. The participants of the current study were the jeepney drivers, tricycle drivers, private vehicle drivers, students, and workers who normally enter the Guagua Town Proper zone. All the participants were selected randomly using the Slovin’s formula and lottery sampling method. The statistical tools employed were the frequency tally, percentage and the mean distribution of grouped data. Based on the findings and conclusions drawn from the study, majority of the vehicles that passed through the roads of Guagua Town Proper were public utility vehicles. Findings further revealed that the traffic situation in Guagua Town Proper was already at a greater extent, thus it would take around, more or less, eleven to twenty minutes or eighteen minutes and thirty seconds on the average.