Traffic Management In area of Metropolitan Police Bureau of According to Good Governance

Abstract

The purposes of this research included: 1) To study factors leading to traffic problems that affected the traffic management in the area of the Metropolitan Police Bureau; 2) To study factors that solved the traffic problems affecting traffic management in the area of the Metropolitan Police Bureau; 3) To study good governance guidelines for traffic management in the area of the Metropolitan Police Bureau. The researcher used mixed methods research including: 1) a qualitative research by interviewing 30 key informants of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters 1-9 and the Traffic Police Division and by analyzing the content; 2) a quantitative research by gathering data through questionnaires from sampling groups of 400 officials of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters 1-9 and the Traffic Police Division and analyzing data by multiple linear regression. The quantitative research found that overall factors leading to traffic problems with the highest mean was the condition of vehicles (= 4.38, S.D.= 0.54). Overall factors that helped solving traffic problems with the highest mean was the public transport (= 4.30, S.D.= 0.51). Overall factors of good governance with the highest mean was the principle of participation (= 4.53, S.D. = 0.59). The qualitative research found that the main cause of traffic problems was the motor vehicle drivers that popularly used private vehicles more than public transports. The factor for solving traffic problem was the traffic law that must be strictly and seriously enforced. Good governance guidelines for solving traffic problems were the participatory approach with the cooperation of related agencies and communities that commonly watched and regularly inspected the traffic law enforcement. For the recommendations, the principle of transparency should be cultivated according that the police offices were seen as organizations being prone to be corrupt.