Governor of the Capital City and Mayor of Ulaanbaatar D.Sumiyabazar and relevant officials received Administrative Project Leader of the Southern region of the U.S. state of California and Chief Specialist in Road Transport and Urban Planning Ms. Bayarmaa Alexander. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the measures to be taken for traffic congestion reduction and got acquainted with the research implemented by Los Angeles city, California, U.S.

Los Angeles is home to 3.8 million people, and one of the cities facing issues of traffic congestion. According to the research, the main reason for the traffic congestion is not only urban planning, but also the fact that citizens tend to travel by car rather than walking. Specifically, 74.1 percent of the population travel by private car, 12.6 percent use a shared car, 4.9 percent choose public transportation and 4.2 percent work from home. Therefore, the city of Los Angeles has been implementing various of measures to tackle traffic congestion in addition to other measures at road transport and automobile since the 1920s.

Ulaanbaatar city has a population of 1.6 million, an average of 440-460 thousand vehicles travel every day and about duplicated number of 2.9 million vehicle participate in traffic per day. In addition to going to work and going home, the main reasons people travel by car include going to schools and kindergartens, shopping and service centers, and vacation and leisure places. Therefore, the sides emphasized that traffic congestion is a complex issue made up of number of factors, and it was considered appropriate to study the demand and need for car travel and to implement works aimed at it.

Ms. Bayarmaa Alexander received her PhD in Mathematical Modeling of Transportation from Kyoto University in Japan and has experience in working on road transport and urban planning projects in Japan, the Netherlands, and the U.S.

Currently, she is leading a long-term project to develop road transport in the Southern region of Los Angeles, California, U.S. until 2040.

CAPITAL CITY TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY