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    Integration of telecommunication in passport making process- a pseudo means to reduce travel demand and other sufferings
    (Research and Development Wing, MIST, 2009-02) Islam, Major Md. Kabirul; Hoque, Md. Shamsul
    Telecommunication or Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that is changing rapidly every aspects of life, is also bringing significant changes in the traditional concept of transportation. Like other telecom enabled services (1), telecom enabled passport making process has the potential to reduce significant travel demand and associated sufferings of the clients, hence of the society. On this consideration, existing passport making, renewal, amendment processes have been critically analyzed in this paper to identify the amount and pattern of physical trips and associated sufferings involved in these processes as well as to explore the way of how telecommunication or ICT can gainfully be integrated with the system. The analysis found that for the purpose of passport making, renewal and amendment process daily approximately 18,000 trips are made around Dhaka passport office. Most of these trips are made during the peak periods availing the highly congested city transport network spending huge amount of fuel, time, money and labor. It is further estimated that effective integration of ICT in the existing system can reduce or convert 63-75 percent physical trips to Fuel Free (FF) electronic trips. In addition, ICT enabled system can also speed up and simplify the process, minimize massive paper works and corruptions, ease up the social sufferings, and increase the productivity of the system. It is expected that this study would help the transport planners and policy makers‟ better way of understanding how the ICT can reduce the need for travel demand in different fields and thereby solve local traffic induced problems.
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    INTREGRATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION IN PASSPORT MAKING PROCESS - A PSEUDO MEANS TO REDUCE TRAVEL DEMAND AND OTHER SUFFERINGS
    (R&D Wing, MIST, 2009-02) Kabirul Islam, Major Md.; Hoque, Md. Shamsul
    Telecommunication or Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that is changing rapidly every aspects of life, is also bringing significant changes in the traditional concept of transportation. Like other telecom enabled services (1), telecom enabled passport making process has the potential to reduce significant travel demand and associated sufferings of the clients, hence of the society. On this consideration, existing passport making, renewal, amendment processes have been critically analyzed in this paper to identify the amount and pattern of physical trips and associated sufferings involved in these processes as well as to explore the way of how telecommunication or ICT can gainfully be integrated with the system. The analysis found that for the purpose of passport making, renewal and amendement process daily approximately 18,000 trips are made around Dhaka passport office. Most of these trips are made during the peak periods availing the highly congested city transport network spending huge amount of fuel, time, money and labor. It is further estimated that effective integration of ICT in the existing system can reduce or convert 63-75 percent physical trips to Fuel Free (FF) electronic trips. In addition, ICT enabled system can also speed up and simplify the process, minimize massive paper works and corruptions, ease up the social sufferings, and increase the productivity of the system. It is expected that this study would help the transport planners and policy makers’ better way of understanding how the ICT can reduce the need for travel demand in different fields and thereby solve local traffic induced problems.
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    Measuring Effectiveness of Non-Motorized Vehicles on Spatial Extent for TOD Development: A Case Study for MRT 6 in Dhaka
    (Research and Development Wing, MIST, 2023-06) Uddin, Md. Anwar; Hoque, Md. Shamsul
    To improve the effectiveness of conventional walking-based Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), introducing Non-Motorized Vehicles (NMV)-based TOD will be a more efficient alternative since it will increase the spatial extent of the TOD node’s buffer area. This paper discusses the available Bicycle-based TOD (BTOD) concept. Based on this concept, the spatial extent of NMV-based TOD (NTOD) has been calculated. A trip-based survey has been conducted on the selected regions of Dhaka along the line of MRT 6 regarding who uses NMV (Rickshaw, Bicycle) and public transport (PT) for his daily commuting. A trip chain analysis was performed first to capture the trip pattern of daily commuters. From the trip chain analysis, it has been found that PT-based trip chains dominated the city’s entire trip chain. Consequently, it has also been found that walking-only and walking-NVM accessible trips dominate 32% and 23% of the entire PT trip chains. However, based on the findings of trip chain analysis to calculate the spatial extent by developing regression models, it has been observed that the access trip length for walking ranges from 1.2-1.4 km, whereas the access trip length for NVM ranges from 4-4.7 km. In Dhaka, the catchment area of NTOD can increase the accessibility potentially by spatial extent expansion of about 70% from the conventional TOD. Therefore, it can be inferred that NVM will give more spatial accessibility than walking. As a result, a new window of planning and design strategies will be opened for the planners and policymakers around TOD station area planning considering NMV. Along with strategic recommendations, limitations, and future research agendas have also been discussed in this paper.
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