Asean Transportation Policies 2015

Topic: ASEAN Transportation Policies

General purpose: To inform

Specific purpose: To inform my audiences about how transportation worked in the past and how it is going to change in the future.

Central idea: ASEAN Transportation in 2015

Introduction: Most people may already have pass through a touch experiences where when you were in a hurry, you just cannot go nowhere because of the traffic. Thailand is one of the countries where transportation really needs an improvement. As a result, an efficient and integrated transportation system is the system created for an improvement in economic competitiveness and convenient among people in South East Asia. As ASEAN Economic Community is playing a big role within a society, transportation in present day is something extremely important. Transportation effected people within a term of free movement and services, convenient of sending their products and services among one country and so on. It is not only important for people to become more comfortable from moving from one place to another, but as well it plays an important role in increasing the countries' internal and external trade. In order to reach a better standard of transportation, loads of actions and hard work must be implied.

Credibility: Once, I used to experience a very bad day in my life. It was the day that I took a bus while it was raining, and it took me about three hours to get to my house which normally it usually took me about 40 minutes. My feet hurt so much, and the traffic was terrible. I ended up getting scold as I missed my dinner with my family and had a worst transportation service back to my house. Later I found out that my parents were talking about ASEAN, and they mentioned that ASEAN was aiming by 2015, many things will be improved and changed, and this included the transportation among every country, which included Thailand! Thinking what just happened a moment ago, I suddenly had the interest to know more things about ASEAN transportation policy, and would like to see changes in Bangkok by 2015!

Preview: In today presentation I'm going to focus on two important main points. Firstly, I'm going to talk about how ASEAN transportation worked in the past until now. Secondly, I'm going to focus on how transportation in ASEAN will change within 2015.

A. Review examples of ASEAN transportation today

- What is TDM?

TDM stands for Transportation Demand Management, it's an organization that aims to providing more road network in order to reduce the traffic, promoting a better sustainable within transport and improve traffic management through embracing transportation policies. On the other hand, the function works by "controlling land use development, public transport integration, parking control and management" (Best practices in Transportation Demand Management, 2008).

- Singapore's success in TDM

Singapore has 5 million people live in the country, within an area of 137 kilometres. It has been