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    Identifying factors affecting the traffic congestion on main markets of Lahore
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) Nouman Abid; Mujtaba Hussain
    Lahore city is the most urbanized city. The Lahore city includes the highest population with biggest commercial markets. We do literature study to identify the factors effecting the traffic congestion and analyzed solutions to overcome these factors through innovative ideas. The traffic is increasing day by day with growing population. The Congestion is increasing day by day and our study includes that how to overcome the traffic congestion through following factors effecting the traffic congestion. We followed the proper methodology systematically to do our study in an efficient way. This thesis includes the brief detail study of main commercial markets at the Lahore city. Major commercial markets for our study are Moon Market, Barkat market, Liberty market, and Delhi Bazar market. These markets influence badly and cause traffic congestion. Detailed study of four markets including their land uses and road inventories. We have worked under the scope of our defined factors. We do analysis through expert opinions our survey is done by using survey source (Google forms). Our results are in the form of charts with percentages, then we select those factors which have more positive impacts on traffic congestion. This report also includes the Likert scale weightage to rate the factor, which is more crucial for controlling the traffic congestion. Different markets face different issues like first discussing about the moon market, the moon market has no pedestrian paths and pedestrian bridges on main roads. While Delhi bazar market has no pedestrian paths, no regular parking places. The liberty market area faces traffic congestion during peak hours because congestion charges are not implemented at this location. The study includes brief discussions about these study areas. Overall, the concept of ITS system will incorporate free flow movement of traffic and reduce the traffic congestion. We give solutions by proposing different innovative solutions at our study area. The moon market includes the pedestrian bridge with pedestrian paths. The Barkat market area includes the proposal of ITS system. The Liberty market includes the proposal of traffic congestion charges to overcome the growing traffic. The Delhi bazar market includes the proposal of Pedestrian paths and parking stand. The traffic congestion should be controlled ta Lahore city if we segregate the vehicle and non-vehicle traffic, and through implementation of innovative proposal we should overcome the growing traffic.