Geography project presentation

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Geography project
presentation
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Topic Traffic problem

• Nowadays in Hong Kong, transportation is a hot
  tropic to discuss. Whatever the transport
  facilities, traffic congestions, pollution caused
  by vehicles , these are the subjects that our
  group would like to talk about.

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What are the factors arose these problems?
Human factors
Physical factors
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Human factors

• Increase in population density
• Population decentralization
• Development of new towns
• Large number of commuter works in main urban area
• Rapid growth in trade with other parts of China
• Increase in movement of goods and passengers
• Early transport design cannot meet present demand
• Increasing private car ownership due to rising
  living standard
• High concentration of economic activities in
  C.B.D.

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Prolonging growing of private car ownership
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Physical factors

• Small area of Hong Kong
• Hilly relief
• Victoria Harbor separates Kowloon Peninsula and
  Hong Kong Island so that cross-harbor transport
  is needed
• Blockage of roads by landslide or rockfall

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What are the problems?

• Traffic congestion ??? More noise and air
  pollution.
• Great economic loss from time wasted in traffic
  congestion.
• Life loss in accidents.
• The high inflation rate of the transport fare.
• The shortage of parking space, especially in
  C.B.D.
• Insufficient transport facilities to meet
  increasing traffic demand.
• Oil spillage from ships can seriously
• pollute the sea.

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Noise pollution caused by public transport
Noise complaint in Hong Kong

• As the airport have moved to Lantau Island, noise
  pollution has less affect the public.
• Road and rail transport has produced a high
  level of background noise.

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Air pollution caused by vehicles
Air pollution complaint

• The main mobile source of air pollution, which is
  motor vehicles. They emit most of the lead and
  carbon monoxide.(????)
• Generally, the air pollution in urban is more
  serious than the one in rural area.

in Hong Kong
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Accident in Hong Kong

• Date10-7-2003
• Time Around 800am
• Location Tuen Mun Road.
• The accident happened in between the Tsuen Wan
  Town Centre bus stop and the Tai Lam Tunnel Bus
  Interchange. There were around 40 passengers on
  the bus when the accident happened most of them
  were going to school or going to work.
• Result in 21 dead included driver and 20
  passengers.

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Achievable measures taken to mitigate transport
problems in Hong Kong
Government
Public
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The end

• After this presentation, we wish all of you
  can understand the traffic problems in Hong Kong.
  Thank you for your attention.
• Group member
• Hui Ka man(24)
• Lee Yi Chen(28)
• Ng Chi Lan(30)

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Possible measures taken by Government

• Further development of mass transit system, for
  instance, the Kowloon-Canton Railway West Rail
• Improvement of existing road systems, like
  widening roads
• Expansion of public transport services to new
  towns and remote area
• Construction of more roads and tunnels

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• Construction of subways and foot-bridges, in
  order to decrease accidents
• Improvement of the efficiency of existing
  tunnels, e.g. installation of an auto toll system
• Development of an electronic road pricing (ERP)
  system
• Development of a computerized traffic control
  system
• Control of private car ownership, the possibly
  way are increasing the tax on new cars and
  registration fee
• Lets go and see a Car-Less Villages in
  Switzerland

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Operations could be taken by public

• Avoid Going out during rush hour
• Practice car pool
• Attend park and ride scheme
• Use staggered office hours
• Use less busy transport means and routes
• Use more public transport

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Mass transit systems in Hong Kong
KCRC
Light Rail
MTR
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More about KCRC

• East Rail (the former Kowloon Canton Railway -
  British Section) operates domestic as well as
  cross-boundary passenger services to the mainland
  boundary at Lo Wu. From Hung Hom terminus to Lo
  Wu Station, the East Rail line covers a distance
  of 34 kilometres with a total of 13 stations,
  including a Racecourse Station open on race days.
  All passenger services are provided by electric
  multiple unit (EMU) trains. The entire train
  fleet at present consists of 444 train cars.

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More about MTR

• Since operations began in 1979, the MTR Railway
  has become one of the most important elements of
  Hong Kong's transportation network.
• The MTR railway is operating a railway network of
  87.7 kilometers route with 50 stations. With a
  daily patronage of over 2.3 million passengers,
  This system is one of the most intensively
  utilized systems in the world.

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Route Map Of MTR
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More about Light Rail

• The Light Rail system was established in 1988 to
  provide local passenger transport within the
  North West New Territories (NWNT). As the area's
  population expanded, so too did Light Rail.
• The Light Rail system provides an efficient,
  reliable and value-for-money service for the one
  million residents of the rapidly growing new
  towns of the NWNT. Light Rail will be transformed
  into a feeder for West Rail while continuing as
  the major mode of transport in the NWNT.

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More about West Rail

• West Rail is a 30.5km twin-track
• passenger railway with nine stations,
• West Rail links up Sham Shui Po in West
  Kowloon, via Kwai Tsing and Tsuen Wan with Yuen
  Long and Tuen Mun in the Northwest New
  Territories.

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Route Map Of KCRC
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Tuen Mun Highway

• This highway has been developed to link such new
  towns as Tuen Mun and Yuen Long to the urban
  centre.
• Since the now towns are far from being
  self-contained, many people still have to commute
  to work in the urban centre every day.
• Roads which can link up new towns and urban area
  are essential.

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Cross Harbor Tunnel

• This tunnel was constructed more than twenty
  years ago to connect the major urban districts on
  either sides of the harbor. Economic development
  and population decentralization have created
  large volume of traffic between the two sides of
  the harbor. Thus, the Cross Harbor Tunnel had
  constructed to fix the problems.

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Western Harbor Tunnel

• In the 1980s, the Government decided to develop a
  new international airport for Hong Kong on a site
  formed from Chek Lap Kok, an island just off
  Lantau Island. This would replace Kai Tak
  International Airport.
• Ten further infrastructure projects - the Airport
  Core Programmer (ACP) - were associated with the
  development of this new airport. The Western
  Harbor Tunnel (WHT), is a one of the
  infrasturcture in the project.
• The Hong Kong portal of the WHT forms the
  southern gateway of Route 3, the strategic
  north-south road corridor that traverses the
  western part of the Hong Kong Special
  Administrative Region.
• The tunnel thus links major population centres
  with the container port at Kwai Chung and the
  airport at Chek Lap Kok. It also opens up the
  northwestern New Territories and connects with
  the new super-highway to Guangdong via Lok Ma
  Chau.
• WHT not only releases the traffic stress at the
  other two cross-harbour tunnels, it also shortens
  the travelling time between Hong Kong Island and
  Kowloon

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