What Is the Best Solution to Prevent Traffic Congestion?

A lot of people complain that people yakking on phones are the biggest players in causing traffic-jams/accidents/road-problems, but Cell phone technology can and is used greatly to determine which routes are the most congested, so as to signal drivers to change routes on the basis of the information.

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Branching multiple roads going to the same place can divide traffic.

Bus lanes will keep Buses on one side of the road and not blocking/jamming every other vehicle on the road.

A motorcycle/bike/cycle lane will segregate two-wheelers from car traffic.

Car clubs have begun to take off in the UK over the last few years largely because of the added expense of running a car in the midst of a recession. Car clubs were already popular in continental Europe before the recession and have proved to be popular for a range of reasons. For instance car clubs are environmentally more friendly than owning your own car and save a member a significant amount in comparison to the costs of running their own car.

Using the subway/tube/public-buses/trams/school buses/cycles should be made compulsory so that traffic congestion does not permeate further and traffic is efficiently organized.

In the long haul, people need to learn to share resources; it will be a cheaper/cleaner(Eco-friendly:individual carbon footprints would be greatly divided(in lieu of forty people using ten-forty cars, forty-plus people will be using a bus))/better means of commuting.

Security should be tightened on public transportation(given the number of public bombing/shooting/bus-burnings in the news) to ensure safe travel.

Would be Hydro/Solar/purely-eco-friendly-resource-powered efficiently organized/coordinated public transportation with stringent but quick security checking.

Better information for all transport users, be they pedestrians, in public or private transportation, to allow them to make better judgments. Traffic flows can be smoothed, and so congestion removed, with better information. An example is on public transport systems that flow in sequence, such as the tube. The trains may usually frequent but, due to some delay, have started to bunch together. The next train to arrive will get slower and slower as more people, who have waited longer than usual, pile on. Whereas the train after it is catching up, with fewer passengers to pick up. Knowing that the next train is chock-full, and the one after it is close behind but almost empty, would allow passengers to wait for the latter, thus smoothing out the congestion.