Category: traffic

Metro Manila — one of the worst cities for drivers around the world

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It’s no surprise that traffic in Metro Manila and neighboring cities is getting worse day by day and statistics from Waze is a proof of a driver’s pain on the road.

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The Philippines rank differently on each. It varies being one of the worst, and also one of the best. Interestingly, our country managed to grab a top spot.

Here are the factors Waze used to rank Global Driver Satisfaction Index:

    Traffic – Density and driving conditions
    Safety – Risk of driving
    Driver Services – Car services (e.g. gas stations, parking)
    Road Quality – Infrastructure
    Socio-economic – Access to cars and gas price impact (data by World Bank)
    Wazeyness – helpfulness within the Waze community

Higher score is better.

Index FactorScoreRank
Most Satisfied3.99th of the Worst
Traffic0.4The Worst
Safety9.34th of the Best
Driver Services10.0The Best
Road Quality5.813th of the Worst
Socio-Economic0.0The Worst
Wazeyness3.46th of the Worst

As for the Ranked list of satisfaction for our largest metros by population – a score of
3.9 for Manila, Quezon City , Makati, Dasmariñas, Bacoor, Taguig, Valenzuela, San Jose del Monte.

Overall, the Philippines ranked 9th of the Worst with a score of 3.9.

The safety and services ranking may raise a few eyebrows. While services of sprawling gas stations and their competitive offerings are great, parking services are still not worthy to be the best. And ranking 4th best in terms of safety? We would like to know more about that.

On a city level, Manila reported the worst traffic, with Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Jakarta not far behind.

MetroTrafficIndex

Here are the indexes in PDF:
Index by Metro
Index by Big Metro
Index by Country

Data from 50 million users in 32 countries and 167 metro areas are used to complete this index. To know more, head over to the Waze Blog.

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Uber launches carpooling service UberCOMMUTE in China

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Uber, in China, launches a new service called UberCOMMUTE that aims to make commuting easier and more efficient via sharing a ride.

ubercommute

Aiming to help reduce costs for everyone and at the same time cut traffic congestion, the service lets drivers sign in to the app and key in their destination which will then be matched by Uber to participating riders who share the same route. The driver can already see how much he would be earning before he decides to accept the request and pick them up on the way.

Riders will split the payment which could cut the costs in half for each passenger, so that’s a good thing. This also frees up space on the street since people would now be sharing a ride instead of them having one vehicle each.

Currently, only China has the service but the company will “adapt uberCOMMUTE for other cities around the world”. This means there is a high chance that it will make its way here in the Philippines.

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Uber launches carpooling service UberCOMMUTE in China

Kevin Bruce Francisco Leave a comment

Uber, in China, launches a new service called UberCOMMUTE that aims to make commuting easier and more efficient via sharing a ride.

ubercommute

Aiming to help reduce costs for everyone and at the same time cut traffic congestion, the service lets drivers sign in to the app and key in their destination which will then be matched by Uber to participating riders who share the same route. The driver can already see how much he would be earning before he decides to accept the request and pick them up on the way.

Riders will split the payment which could cut the costs in half for each passenger, so that’s a good thing. This also frees up space on the street since people would now be sharing a ride instead of them having one vehicle each.

Currently, only China has the service but the company will “adapt uberCOMMUTE for other cities around the world”. This means there is a high chance that it will make its way here in the Philippines.

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HPG pushes to stop purchase of vehicle without parking space

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Held during a joint meeting to solve the troublesome traffic in Metro Manila,  GMA News Online reports that the head of the PNP-Highway Patrol Group (HPG) is calling for a ban on vehicle purchase when the owner still has no designated parking for it.

photo credit: rappler.com
photo credit: rappler.com

“It is my recommendation that we should come out with a law providing or prohibiting individuals [from buying or purchasing] motor vehicles without their respective garage,” said Senior Supt. Arnold Gunnacao, officer-in-charge of the HPG which is tasked to facilitate traffic management along EDSA.  He also expressed his interest to declare all streets no parking zones so as to give more way for motorists.

Part of this is reported to be due to the 20,000 – 25,000 vehicles purchased every month here in the Philippines, with Metro Manila contributing about 60% to that number.

In addition, the report says Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III demands that the authorities make sure that vehicles will only be allowed to park at designated areas.

Lastly, future plans such as extending LRT lines were brought up in order to ‘move people’, but would still take a while to be fully operational.

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HPG pushes to stop purchase of vehicle without parking space

Kevin Bruce Francisco Leave a comment

Held during a joint meeting to solve the troublesome traffic in Metro Manila,  GMA News Online reports that the head of the PNP-Highway Patrol Group (HPG) is calling for a ban on vehicle purchase when the owner still has no designated parking for it.

photo credit: rappler.com
photo credit: rappler.com

“It is my recommendation that we should come out with a law providing or prohibiting individuals [from buying or purchasing] motor vehicles without their respective garage,” said Senior Supt. Arnold Gunnacao, officer-in-charge of the HPG which is tasked to facilitate traffic management along EDSA.  He also expressed his interest to declare all streets no parking zones so as to give more way for motorists.

Part of this is reported to be due to the 20,000 – 25,000 vehicles purchased every month here in the Philippines, with Metro Manila contributing about 60% to that number.

In addition, the report says Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III demands that the authorities make sure that vehicles will only be allowed to park at designated areas.

Lastly, future plans such as extending LRT lines were brought up in order to ‘move people’, but would still take a while to be fully operational.

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