With the help of this feature, one can understand the traffic conditions in the different routes. The roads on the map change colour depending on the movement of vehicles.
This allows the app to analyse the total number of cars, and how fast they are moving along the roads at any given time, reports Business Insider.
The road scene in Dhaka city is something awesome, and a journey is like a journey to hell. A recent survey on vehicle movement on the main thoroughfares, mostly on cars and buses, revealed that the average speed of a car was just 15 to 20 kmph. Just imagine the colossal loss of time on the road in going from Uttara to New Market or Gulistan at this speed.
The development of the country, especially Dhaka city, has suffered because the administration could not build proper roads linking the nooks and corners of the country.
n fact, allocating more urban land to roads means you have to reduce the portion of land allocated for other urban functions, such as housing, industrial, commercial and entertainment. What has also been widely recognized is that building more roads does NOT reduce traffic congestion. It would actually induce more motorized traffic and thus create more traffic congestion.
To the chagrin of urban and regional planning experts, Bangladesh continues to construct gargantuan flyovers in what can be described as ‘putting a plaster on’ approach to dealing with the nightmarish traffic situation the country now experiences. Professors of city planning are disappointed at this myopic approach and argue for a drastic change in traffic demand management policies.
