In countries all over the world, the volume of road traffic is increasing at a faster rate than new roads are built. What are the causes of this problem? What are some potential solutions?

In today's modern world, countries are facing the issue of road

traffic

volume which

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volume, which

is increasing at a higher level than the construction of new roads. The increase in

traffic

on roads is mainly due to people having access to buying personal vehicles on affordable rates and packages as well as the city sprawl. The said issue can be solved by promoting

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modes

a mode

of

mass

public

transportation

and implementing taxes on purchasing vehicles. One of the main reasons for the above-mentioned problem is the affordable price of vehicles, nowadays.

For example

, due to the increasing competition among various

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car

manufacturing companies, vehicles are now being offered to be bought

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in

numerous packages and easy

installments

a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals

instalments

instalments'

by the companies.

This

led to the higher purchasing of vehicles by the common

man which

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man, which

resulted in

higher volume

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a higher volume

of

traffic

on roads. Another cause is that since the population is growing rapidly, the cities have now been started to sprawl resulting in longer distance between home and workplace.

This

has caused more usage of vehicles on

daily basis

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a daily basis

,

thus

, causing huge

traffic

on roads.

This

problem can be solved in many ways. One of the viable solutions is to develop/upgrade and promote the use of

mass

public

transportation which

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transportation, which

can be done by the government on

macro level

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a macro level

the macro level

.

For instance

, in Japan,

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the majority

of people use

Subway transport service

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the Subway transport service

Subway transport services

, which is a form of

mass

public

transportation

, to commute daily, due to which there is no load of

traffic

on the roads of

this

country.

Furthermore

, applying taxes on the

purchasing

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purchase

of vehicles can

also

result in less affordability by the customers and may result in lesser volume of

traffic

on the roads. In conclusion, nowadays,

although

traffic

volumes are increasing at a higher rate than the development of roads in many countries all around the world, due to the factors of vehicle purchasing affordability and the city sprawl, it can be resolved by introducing or promoting

mass

public

transportation

and applying more taxes on buying vehicles.