Arba Minch University (AMU) Institute of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering in collaboration with Arba Minch Municipality held five day training for field civil engineers on “Traffic field studies and analysis to mitigate traffic problems in urban areas”. Participants for training were field civil engineers from Arba Minch Municipality, Town planning, Construction Organizations and any other civil engineering sectors in and around Gamo Zone. The training was held from February 3-7/2025 at Main Campus. Click here to see more photos.
During his opening speech, Muluneh Lemma (PhD), the Scientific Director, said, AMU being differentiated as Research University with priority areas in Water and other engineering, Agriculture and life Science, Health Science and Medicine, Physical Science and STEM and Social Science and Humanities fields. Realizing the opportunity, AMiT is trying to excel in the main mission of teaching learning, research, community engagement and technology transfer. Most importantly, we are working hard as well with industries and stakeholders; the trainings for our stakeholders are part of the main activities; hence, we do hope that, in the end, the objective of the training would be achieved and the benefits of the capacity building for revitalizing the municipality workers, in time of need, for major government plan of modern urban traffic planning and corridor projects, he underscored
Event organizer and trainer of the training Prof. Raju Ramesh (PhD) said the political, educational, business, commercial and recreational activities lead to a lot of traffic congestion on urban roads. As a whole, each and every urban area in developing countries will be subjected to lot of traffic problems and challenges on existing roads and the main objective of the training was to train field civil engineers in and around Gamo zone; various traffic transportation field studies were conducted to raise awareness to identify better solutions for the existing traffic problems, Prf. Raju noted. According to him, the content of the training focused on traffic volume, traffic speed, road capacity, headway, pedestrian, parking, traffic delay, travel time, traffic accident, and intersection studies and their complete analyses.
The other event organizer and trainer, Prof. Rajesh A. (PhD) underscored that traffic in urban areas is heterogeneity in nature that face lot of challenges every day to meet safety on the roads. Managing the traffic in high density areas needs lot of attention both for engineers and administration, he underlined. The decision making to implement new changes in urban scenario is a challenging job; the traffic problems in the urban areas will increase day to day due to several factors and in order to overcome the various traffic problems, the civil engineers play a very important role in the society, he said. The training being accompanied by both theory explanation and field studies observation was designed to improve the theoretical and practical knowledge of the trainees to understand and to tackle the traffic problems in the urban areas or even in the developing cities like Arba Minch in the future, he noted.
One of the trainees, Abrham Bassa, said, I gained a lot of knowledge about traffic volume, traffic speed, road capacity, headway, pedestrian, parking, traffic delay, travel time, traffic accident, intersection studies and their complete analyses; this will help me and others in our work in the future a lot, he confirmed.
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