BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

As traffic congestion continues to worsen in most cities throughout the world, increasing attention has been directed towards policies designed to improve the operational efficiency of urban streets.

Trucks are mostly perceived as slow moving vehicle that occupies a large amount of road space, thus hindering the smooth flow of traffic, especially during busy times (peak-periods).

Trucks are banned in most towns for instance in Philippine capital city, Manila because the people of Metropolitan Manila often rely on road transport due to the lack of efficient rail based public transport. The government enforces restraints on large trucks with the intention that buses and other public transport modes will not have to compete for the limited road space. However, although large truck restrictions in Metro-Manila represents a rational solution to the problems of traffic congestion, such measures may present negative and harmful effects if not fully understood.

Increased exposure to the vehicular emissions can be linked to an increased prevalence of a wide variety of illnesses including Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, Pneumonia and Heart disease.

With the aforementioned problems, one can easily see the need to move trucks out of the road to a place where they can be managed properly in order to provide a facility that will promote traffic laws and regulations and to sanitize the state of all unplanned space for trailers and tankers operation.