Abstract
The problem of road traffic congestion and the corresponding pollution from motor vehicles have become important issues in developing metropolitan areas that lack railway and urban expressway networks like Metro Manila. This paper tried to build an evaluation system which considers civic environmental consciousness to the transportation policies to reduce SPM. In this study, a questionnaire survey for residents, roadside pedestrians, and public transport users was performed. From there, the awareness structure regarding damage to the environment and health due to air pollution was understood. Moreover, traffic characteristic and roadside-land-use information on the region were inputted to the traffic microscopic simulation “PARAMICS”, and the actuality of traffic flow and SPM measurements were verified. From these two results, the effect of several transportation policies on traffic flow and air environments were evaluated.
