Define an urban transportation system of your own choice in the city of Omaha and identify:

• Its direct transportation service problems.

Transportation systems refer to the infrastructure and related networks that provide links between places that allows more reliable and low-cost movement of people, goods, and ideas. Transportation can be carried out through five modes: roads, water, air, railways, and pipelines. Urban areas are the busiest areas and which require forms of transportation systems convenient in the use by people. The urban of Omaha does not permit the working of public transport within the urban area. However, since human beings have to travel, goods should be transferred, and ideas have to circulate, a defined use of metro transport in the city of Omaha, as a direct transportation system, would help ease the ban against public transport within the city.

Metro systems help in the offering of direct transportation services to the people, goods, and ideas. However, its set up comes with high costs. Metro systems offer direct links and people have no other options for transport within the city. The costs of this transport have been set high due to barred choices of other means of transport. Again, the safety of the ground levels within the city is worrying. Due to excavation works carried on during the establishment of the metro systems, the ground in Omaha City has been rendered weak and no safer for human settlement. If there could happen any form of earthquake or tremors, the ground would not be able to withstand such forces thus would collapse and lead to massive loss of human lives. The level of services provided by the metro transportation system is another problem associated with this form of network. Since all people depend on this sole form of transport to the town center, the service providers find it hard to improve on the levels of the service provided. Thus, the same queuing method to obtain boarding tickets, reduced efficiency in departures and arrivals, and unassured durations of stoppages are still in practice. These caused inconveniences to the people and there is no hope of them being improved to better the services provided by the metro transportation system.

• Problems affected/created by transportation system.

The Metro transportation system has had effects on certain aspects of the Omaha urban center as a whole. This system requires a lot of power to run. The transport system has raised the levels of energy consumption of this town to higher levels compared to when public bus transportation was in use. The city has had a certain range of power consumption when the aspects of petroleum products consumed were all taken into account. But the electricity levels consumed by the metro transportation system in running and maintaining the network are high, thus increased energy consumptions. Secondly, the metro transportation system has led to high levels of crimes within the city. Since every person entering the center has to use this  system with only affordability the key, inspections on who to enter the metros have not been enhanced. This has led to the transportation of criminal-minded individuals who have attacked people to grab their possessions. The trend of these activities has been increasing since the abolition of public bus transportation services. Again, the establishment of the metro transport system needed ample space for its installation. People’s businesses and settlements were demolished to provide an adequate piece of land for excavation processes to plant the metro systems. This led to the displacement and relocation of people and their businesses to other places. Thus, some of the city places are congested with people and business organizations than before due to their relocation processes.

• Problems affecting transportation system

The transport system has been serving people well. However, some problems undermine the success of its working. The population of Omaha urban center is growing at a higher rate than anticipated during the abolishment of the public bus transport system and then the adoption of a sole system of metros. This has caused congestions in changing stations and also within the metros. Then, this transport system is faced by a problem in lengths and frequencies of transport patterns entailed in their transport programs. Since the system is mandated to provide services to the whole population of Omaha city, the operations have had to be changed in the way they are carried out to serve every person. This has led to the adoption of a fluctuating calendar in transport hours and frequency of trips. However, with all those changes, the efficiency in this system has not yet been attained and would require more twisting to assure efficiency. Change in income on workers has contributed very little in making the metro transportation system a success. The increased energy consumptions within the city have pushed many organizations to reduce the incomes of workers to cover energy costs. This change has led to many workers to complain of how the provision for their basic needs has been affected.

• Define goals, objectives, standards, criteria and constraints to address the direct transportation service problem(s) of your system (defined in problem 1) as part of the overall urban transportation process.

Every transport system can exhibit some flaws which require to be addressed to make it convenient for people. The process of handling the requirements of transport systems require to set goals, objectives, criteria, standards to achieve, and solutions on constraints to be experienced. The desire to achieve improved safety in metro transport is the first goal to set in addressing inconveniences in this transportation system. Since there have been complaints raised concerning the increased crime rate, the safety of the people, goods, and ideas transported is threatened. Installation of screening systems to detect criminals would help improve the safety of traveling people. Again, improving efficiency should be another goal to address the metro transportation system. The delays caused in morning and evening hours are due to a lower number of metros serving a fast-growing population. The provision of more transporting cabins would improve the efficiency of service provision.

The set goals will serve to achieve the objective of an increased level of service provided to traveling people. Every traveling person admires the best qualities provided by the mean of transport they choose. Since the abandonment of public buses that provided an adorable level of services to people, metro systems have not served sufficiently. Thus, achieving higher levels of services than the bus transport system would be the objective to work upon. This will work towards convincing people that the abandonment of public services was for the better of the people.

The transport agency should set certain criteria so that it can achieve an objective based on service provision. The reduction in accidents per million entering vehicles within the city of Omaha has been achieved through the adoption of the metro transportation system. However, to improve the service provision by these transportation systems, adding more transporting cabins, security crews, and guards in screening areas would be the way this. This method of work will create job opportunities for more people within the growing population. The level of dependency on the government will reduce while improving the living standards of people within and outside the city. Again, the adoption of this transportation method from outside the city will ensure that the outskirts of Omaha have ample parking space for people contacting public rallies like politicians. This is evident because many people choose to come with their cars to the outskirts of the city, park them there the whole day, and use metros to navigate the city center. The problem in shifts and frequencies of trips would be solved.

Achieving high standards in the activity individuals commit to helps solve the problems associated with that activity. Working towards attaining better safety standards in the metro transportation system would work towards convincing people of its importance. This would work by ensuring the crime rates are low, the excavated land is stabilized to ensure the safety of people living around the metro areas, and reclaiming more land to assign to displaced and relocated population. However, to implement those measures, the constraints on budget and highly advancing technology should be considered too. First, the costs of increasing cabins, employing security crews, and implementing screening systems would require an alteration of the normal governmental budget. Again, considerations on improving technology which would lead to abandoning the use of metro transport in the future set another limitation to consider while investing more in improving the metro transportation system.

• List up to 3 alternative solutions/plans that can be used to achieve the goals and objectives that are defined in problem 2.
• Providing more metro cabins

The efficiency in the use of metro systems is being undermined by lack of enough metro cabins to aid in transporting big populations. Thus, maintaining this form of transportation system but either providing more metro stations to serve all directions would help achieve efficiency in metro transportation system.

• Telecabins

The adoption in use of telecabins to aid in navigating from the outskirts of the town would be more secure for the people. This is because there would be minimal relocation. After all, the transport mode would not touch on land issues. Again, it would cover shorter installation costs compared to the metro improvements required to attain safety and efficiency.

• Taxies

Encouragement on partial use of governmental taxies would help share the burden of a high population solely served by the metro. This would ensure that the required number of people is contained in the metro thus reducing crime rates and accident levels caused by this transportation system.