ISSN 2239-978X ISSN 2240-0524 Journal of Educational and Social Research MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol. 4 No.1 January 2014 531 Behaviour of Mass Towards Traffic Congestion in Faisalabad City Paksitan Ayesha Saleem Lecturer/Coordinator Department of Geography Faculty of science and Technology Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. Email: ayeshageographer@gmail.com Khaleeque Kamboh Lecturer University Community College Faisalabad, Pakistan. Email: kamboh_mkh@yahoo.com Doi:10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n1p531 Abstract Socio-economic development in the cities is well dependent on transport system these days. Causes of traffic congestion and the assessment of public behavior towards traffic congestion are main purposes of the study. Faisalabad city is made representative of the scenario since it is found that every major junction of the city is facing the problem of traffic congestion. For the purpose data was collected from main roads of Faisalabad through primary and secondary sources. It is revealed by the results that most of the respondents thought that heavy traffic, lack of parking space, pedestrian and slow moving traffic. Key words: Traffic congestion, slow moving traffic, parking space, transport system, traffic management 1. Introduction Every day many people spend hours struck in traffic jams. The problem has many serious physical and mental effects on the dweller of the city and often emergency vehicles are also indulged in the scene. The purpose of this research is to analyze the causes of traffic congestion in Faisalabad city as felt by its residents. Today cities depend on transport system for their socio-economic development. Rising traffic congestion is an inescapable condition in all large and growing metropolitan areas across the world (Qureshi I et al 2007). By the best transport system, a country can be a well-developed and progressive (Ali. Z et al 2012). The major causes of traffic congestion in metropolitan cities are considered the development of new buildings, lack of planning, (Mayer, 1990) lack of law implementation, Rickshaws and unplanned stoppage and different speed vehicles (Khaled Mahmud et al 2012). Faisalabad is fastest growing city in Pakistan. It is the second largest industrial city with an estimated population of 1.6 million in 1994. In early 1980 publically owned buses were introduced but they do not exist today (Faisalabad Divisional Commissioner 1994). have worked on various causes of traffic congestion. There studies emphasizes on the new development, absences of adequate mitigation measures, heavy traffic and slow moving traffic in developed in developing countries of the world. There are many methods introduced by scholars to detect traffic congestion as Zito, R (1999) described that traffic congestion is identified by different kind of detectors, such as loop vehicle detector, ultrasonic radar detector, and microwave detectors and so on. Data was also collected from Jinan traffic police. In developing region, the traffic management system is poor that’s why traffic jam due to road network elongate time period. To somewhat lighten this problem he gives solution Local de congestion protocol. He also explain the poor traffic management due to following reasons which are (1)Unplanned city (2)Poor discipline (3)Alternate traffic means(4)Archaic management(5)Tighter budget(VipinJain et al 2012)