Abstract:
As the increasing number of Vehicles and Passenger users, the traffic Congestions
becomes common problem in the developing countries. In Ethiopia, traffic congestion
is becoming a new phenomenon on the transportation infrastructures. The bus station
is one of the most important transportation infrastructures where a bus stops to pick
up and drop off passengers. In Harar city, there is only one bus station which
serviced for Local and Long distance bus. Due to different causes, traffic congestion
is becoming a more serious problem in the Bus station. The objective of this research
is to assess the Performance of bus station and to identify the cause of traffic
congestion in Harar City Bus Station. In order to achieve the objective of this
research, the necessary data were collected through the field visual inspection, field
measurements and traffic data video recording. Typical data required for this were
processed and analyzed based on empirical calculation of HCM, GIS, Microsoft
Excel and SPSS software. The results of the research displayed that unadjusted and
adjusted capacity value of the bus station was 204 and 167 respectively. The cause of
traffic congestion in Harar city Bus station is formed by increasing the number of
passenger and buses, insufficient capacity in loading area, mixed traffic system, lack
of good schedule, unbalance the number of arrival and departure busses and also, the
main cause of traffic congestion in bus station is formed by local busses in the
morning and long distance busses in the afternoon. So, to minimize traffic congested
in the bus station this study was recommended that the Harar City Municipality would
have to determine the required number of loading area and Prepare billboard
schedule for local and long distance buses and also, the future work would have to be
required to prepare manual for Bus Station
