Impacts of Increasing Population: Traffic, Accidents and Casual Problems

This research paper aims to identify the relationship between increasing rate of population and socio-economic degradation. It will provide further dimension in order to find out solution of this rapid population growth.

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Impacts of Increasing Population: Traffic, Accidents and Casual Problems
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Executive summery
This research paper aims to identify the relationship between increasing rate of population
and socio-economic degradation. Socio-economic degradation refers to loads of vehicle
pressure on the roads, unemployment, accommodation issue, hunger and unjustified
distribution of social opportunities. Acknowledging the literate gap from previous studies, it
will provide further dimension in order to find out solution of this rapid population growth. In
order to do that close end interview questionnaire has been proposed to know people’s
perception on various methods of birth control. The entire study has been proposed to be
completed within a framework of 12 weeks.

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Table of Contents
Introduction of the topic.............................................................................................................3
Project objective.........................................................................................................................3
Project scope..............................................................................................................................4
Literature review........................................................................................................................4
Traffic congestion and road accidents....................................................................................6
Research hypothesis...................................................................................................................8
Research question.......................................................................................................................8
Secondary question................................................................................................................8
Research design..........................................................................................................................8
Methodology..............................................................................................................................8
Limitation of the study...............................................................................................................9
Estimated timeline of the research.............................................................................................9

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Introduction of the topic
The regular life of a social being is influenced by several economic and social
difficulty, which are considered as negative impact of increasing population. Along with that,
critical analysis suggests daily complexities like hunger, unemployment, traffic and accidents
happen because of excessive population growth. Population refers to a demographic area of a
certain place, which influences economic and social condition of that particular place. It has
been observed that not only social and economic changes are happening but also there are
several aspects of daily life, which are becoming more complicated with the progression of
time. Simultaneously, raise of population has been acknowledged as one of the main reasons
behind increasing illiteracy, poverty and other casual issues like underemployment and
uneven distribution of resources. The problem of traffic and accidents has spread throughout
rural area as well. The purpose of the research is to focus on the reasons behind such
deterioration of social and economic condition and increasing population as well as try to find
out further negative impacts of ever expanding demographic areas (Stevenson et al. 2016).
Briefly, the objective is to recognize the relationship between increase in population and its
drawbacks like unemployment, hunger, poverty, illiteracy and uneven distribution of
opportunities within a time frame of 12 weeks.
Project objective
As discussed in the previous section, the objective of this assignment is to recognize
the linkage between increasing proportion of demographic areas and the process it is
affecting several factors like road accidents, traffic congestion, and other casual social issues
of being hungry, unemployed and poor. Besides, this is considered as one of the major
reasons behind pollution in environment, lack of accommodation, illiteracy, uneven
distribution of opportunities. The lifestyle of the society is transforming rapidly as the time

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progresses. After acknowledging the sensitivity of current situation, it has been understood
that, the situation will go out of the grip if necessary measurements are not taken in near
future. However, in order to act against the issues it is important to know its intensity at first.
Therefore, this research will analyse the authenticity of the facts with support of suitable data
and information. It will develop an extra ordinary viewpoint of the main discussion along
with that work as a guideline of comparing two variables and identifying relationship
between them.
Project scope
In order to carry out the research, learning outcomes from previous researches have
been taken into account and it can be expected that depending on research method,
observations can provide a different dimension to focus on this issue. The first variable is
periodic increase in population and the second one is daily issues of casual problem, which
involve poverty, crime, unemployment, road accident, traffic consumption, and
accommodation issues ((Ngonghala et al. 2014). With the help of several journals, a detail
literature review on this topic can help to understand the comparative relationship between
these two variables as well as expose the readers to the contemporary situation of the society.
While executing the research, apart from the evaluation of associated journal articles,
websites and books will be consulted too as sources of information.
Scopes for the readers are; this research will emphasize on the cause effect
relationship of population growth and the negative impacts and aspects related to this issue.
The research aims to discuss interpersonal relationship among the factors and the intensity of
dependency among those.

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Literature review
With the rapid transformation of the era, economic and social dimensions have
changed accordingly. The lifestyle is not the same as it used to be ten years ago. As far as the
gradual increase of the demographic proportion is concerned, the growth is noticeably rapid
and after comparing it with the data of last ten years, observation says it is increasing with the
ratio of 1:3. As suggested by the study of Philip, et al., (2014), population growth is one of
the major reasons of increasing complexities of daily life, which include complex nature of
traffic congestion, accidents, deterioration of road condition and public property. Besides, it
invites several social anxieties. The study of Oftedal et al. (2015); distinctly reflects the
impact of the issue on the lifestyle of people. As a result of increasing and complex traffic
congestion the situation of the roads and public properties are getting worse day by day. The
improvement in medical science and technology has accelerated the average lifetime of a
human being (Liu et al. 2015). Mostly influenced by the advanced discoveries of medical
science, the birth and death rates have been altered on a huge scale. Although, there are
certain inventions of birth control process, yet lack of awareness or accessibility has made
them ineffective in the field of execution (Feng, Cai and Gu 2013). There are other factors
like scarcity of food, diseases, natural calamity, that are capable of altering birth and death
rates. Irrespective of every possible reasons of decrement in growth, in a periodic manner the
graph of growth is going higher with time. The outcome is entire world is suffering from the
uneven distribution of natural resources and social opportunity. Lee et al. (2014) suggests; it
is very much obvious that if a certain limit of capacity exceeds, the planet will no longer be
capable of providing adequate accommodation, food and employment. People are habituated
with this by now. However, European countries have shown more concern regarding this than
that of Asian countries. China and India are two countries securing first two positions
respectively in the list of countries having largest population. Following the growth, the

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issues have been increasing rapidly and experts are consistently facing difficulties to find the
solution. An extensive discussion about the ongoing issues as follows will help to understand
the current scenario.
Traffic congestion and road accidents
As per the gathered knowledge from Taleai, Sliuzas, and Flacke, (2014), with the
rapid growth in population the number of vehicles on the road have increased accordingly as
there are larger number of people who have to commute to their workplaces regularly. The
increasing number of population shares a direct proportional equation with increasing
population density as the area of accommodation has become inadequate (Blaikie and
Brookfield 2015). Almost every family is the owner of one vehicle at least, it is obvious that
technology does not influence them to possess something environment friendly. Not only
private cares, the demand of public transports has also increased on the road. Therefore, as
discussed in Colby and Ortman, (2017), both in the cases of urban and rural areas two
consequences can be observed which are, excessive numbers of vehicles on the road during
peak hours and carbon emission in the air has increased its level (Gomes et al. 2014).
As a result of this tremendous pressure, Helliwell and Huang (2014) discusses the
tendency of citizens not to comply with the civil laws which are the biggest reasons of
accidents and heavy load of vehicles is emphasizing the requirement of rebuilding the roads
frequently. Due to the bad conditions of roads, as well accidents are increasing. It has been
observed that directly or indirectly every aspect carries a relationship with the other.
Considering the population growth as first variable of the research, a realization occurs that
the idea of second variables cannot be confined within two or three aspects as all the factors
are interrelated with the first one.

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Moreover, as there is no proper infrastructure of first aid the case of survival is low.
Citizens are regularly dealing with such miserable situations and it is getting difficult and
complicated day by day. The article by Chang et al. (2014) reflected on the lifestyle of people
residing on streets who are the victim of road accidents mostly. Population growth is the
reason behind less accommodation, therefore within the time gap of ten years the scenario
has transformed for the worst largely.
Apart from the main concerns, which are referred, as casual problems of the society,
do not possess casual approach at all. Lewis (2017) has revealed that with the limited
resource when a certain nation cannot serve the purpose of its demographic density the issues
of poverty, unemployment and uneven distribution of opportunities occur. Due to lack of
money, they cannot make the best use of facilities and grow as a part of illiterate population
(Bates et al. (2014). Illiteracy and poverty drive them to work as a labour irrespective of age.
There is a burning ongoing debate can be associated with this, whether poverty has grown
because of excessive population or population growth is a result of poverty. Unemployment
is bigger problem than it has been estimated. The number of professionals are higher than the
positions in the company; competition is fierce. In between all these, systems are biased
occasionally. Concisely, described by Helliwell and Huang (2014), unemployment and
underemployment are the effects, which has come from the excessive number of eligible
persons, recruitment of people in a biased way or lack of suitable jobs. It alters the lifestyle of
people on a large scale, as basic facilities within society are scarce. Earning are not capable of
fulfilling their needs due to unsuitable job profiles. The entire planet is suffering as rich
people are being richer and poor people are not capable of changing their situation due to lack
of money. Therefore, the relationship is somewhat like; population growth leads to
congestion, social anxieties like unemployment. Unemployment leads to poverty, poverty
leads to illiteracy, and illiterate people are less aware of the facts and implications of birth

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control and influencing the population. In a nutshell, as per the views of Taleai, Sliuzas and
Flacke (2014), entire universe is suffering with degrading quality of lifestyle as a strong
drawback of increasing population.
It has been observed that previous studies have not discussed about the process of
birth control, yet technically every survey is showing the population growth as the major
reason of social and economic degradation. Considering this as a literature gap, this paper
will focus on drawing a solution of this ongoing turmoil.
Research hypothesis
i. People can control birth rate by implementing the invention of science. This gradual
yet effective solution will help to slow down periodic population growth.
ii. Acknowledgment of the relationship between population growth and socio-economic
degradation will help to resolve the ongoing turmoil.
Research question
I. What is the role of birth control process regarding contemporary issue of increasing
population?
Secondary question
II. What is the relationship between population growth and socio-economic degradation?
Research design
Considering the secondary hypothesis, as the purpose is to establish relationship
between socio-economic degradation and population growth, explanatory research design has
been taken into account to carry the process. Analytical or descriptive method will assist to
achieve the solution.

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Methodology
The study will be conducted depending on both the primary and secondary data.
Whereas, primary data will be collected from various survey and interview; secondary data
will be derived from different books, peer-reviewed journals and websites. The journals,
which have been used for the literature review those are sources of secondary data as well. In
the addition, census reports and previous reports on the rate of road accidents and several
social factors can help to recognise the relationship between two variables. Approximately,
there is framework of interviewing at least 100 people, 50 people from a metropolitan city
and others should come from a rural background (Buhaug and Urdal 2013).
In order to gain better perception of the topic, quantitative data would be more
appropriate to evaluate the situation. Questionnaire will be directly related with the topic and
in a close end form. Based on a quantitative analysis, report will be prepared and represented
with various graphs, numerical data and percentage rates. Entire survey will be executed
maintaining a proper ethical guideline, without violating any norms.
Limitation of the study
No matter how well the plan has been made, while conducting the research it is
obvious to face difficulty in various stages of it. For example, the time frame can be
considered as one of the most common and major problems of every study. Data collection
method, at times, gets tricky as respondents are unwilling to communicate or sampling size is
not adequate to draw any conclusion. Moreover, resources are not easily accessible.
However, the entire plan must be prepared in the most accurate way so that research can be
performed smoothly.
Estimated timeline of the research
ACTIVITY 1st to 4th week 4th to 6th week 7th to 9th week 10th to 12th

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week
Selection of the topic 
Data collection from
primary sources
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Data collection from
secondary sources
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Literature review 
Data analysis 
Findings from data analysis 
Generating conclusion 
Formatting the draft 
Submission of final paper 
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