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Students have to comply with attendance rules of their schools to maintain good grades and keep up
with their lessons. But as if the pressures of being a regular student are not enough, being stuck in a
gridlock add up to that stress. They miss a good chunk of their lessons due to tardiness, which, only pile
up and take a bigger toll on their motivation in the long run. If they come home late, they have less time
to review their lessons and focus on tasks and projects. Obviously, all of these will negatively impact
their academic performance. Like regular workers who commute to work, students also have to deal
with the physical effects of the traffic situation in the country. Enduring long hours of commute will
obviously lead to tired muscles, on top of the cognitive stress of undergoing the ordeal. A combination
of both will lead to over-all slugging feeling of fatigue. Any type of discomfort, when experienced
frequently, will more or less lead to a shift in attitude. A study by Huffington Post says that commuters
tend to be “anxious and irritated” due to the amount of time they are spending outside. For students,
this could lead to damaging their relationships with peers and teachers, as well as their families when
they get home.

Regular school attendance is a crucial factor in education success. It is critically important since students
who miss school or skip subject miss out on carefully planned sequences of instructions. This study
investigates transportation problems of students in ICT 12-6 that are crucially affected. Road
transportation is the major system of transporting is going to PUP Main, student uses various kinds of
vehicles as means of transport. According to LTFRB (2006), most of the country's students rely on road
transportation for their daily commutation as well as transportation of raw materials and food
commodities. With such a high dependency on road transport, many Ghanaian businessmen believe
that today's many lucrative business venture is transport service, because everybody is compelled to
travel for economic or social activity at least twice a month, irrespective of whether this claim is
legitimate or not, it is left to the public to determine.

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, it was estimated last year that employers were around
37 million Filipinos. Perhaps about half of this number works and moves through the city's main roads to
their regular workplace in Central Business Districts. On top of that, to get to school, billions of students
still rely on public transport. Given today’s private and public institutions, tardiness takes away a huge
chuck in one’s performance. A mere hour spent enduring traffic in EDSA alone could affect one’s job or
study greatly. What’s worse is that when employees and students get stuck in gridlock, they feel
stressed. A sensation that can also influence how their deliverables are handled. Company owners and
teachers will not take long to see the effect of traffic jams on the economy.

It is widely recognized that transport and urban land growth are closely related. The spatial distribution
of human activities such as living and working creates demand for the transportation of people and
goods. Nevertheless, there is less awareness of the converse impacts of the transport side. Accessibility
changes are likely to occasionally induce a location's relative attractiveness, potentially inducing
shipping in land values, uses or densities. These changes are the result of a related relationship between
transport, land and human activities), a tripartite interaction generating travel demand and transport
infrastructure requirements. Good urban development and growth management, as well as land-use
enhancements, improve socio-economic resources. Part of this management includes adding new
frameworks— housing, utilities, and transportation — to create diverse impacts on urban land; the
existence of these impacts makes them difficult to measure. A study carried out by the United States
Institute for Development and Transport Policy (Wright and Hook 2007) identified some of the most
important factors in choosing a transportation system, grouped into categories such as cost, planning
and management, architecture, performance, and effects.

The Philippines placed fifth on the Numbeo.com online research database based on Serbia in the list of
countries with the worst traffic in the world. Yet coping with heavy traffic doesn't just make people late
for work or dinner; there are several studies showing that living with constant traffic congestion also has
negative health consequences. A research by Washington University in St. Louis in 2012 indicated that
long commutes eat up exercise time, according to a CNN article. Long commutes are thus associated
with higher weight, lower fitness levels, and higher blood pressure— all powerful predictors of heart
disease, diabetes, and some cancer types. Commuters exposed to air pollution, such as those traveling
in unconditioned vehicles such as jeepneys or motorcycles, double their risk to health. They are also
exposed to toxins that may damage the lungs as well as stress. However, the World Health Organization
(WHO) said that every year air pollution is responsible for 3.2 million preventable deaths worldwide.
Sleep deprivation can also impair long-term memory, performance and focus. In addition, lack of sleep
can lead to anxiety, fatigue, anger, impulsive behaviour, decreased immunity, and some mental health
issues. It also facilitates the use of drugs and alcohol.

References:

Lamudi.com(2019). How is Traffic Affecting Students in the Philippines?. Retrieved from

https://www.lamudi.com.ph/journal/how-is-traffic-affecting-students-in-the-philippines/

Alvarez, M. B.(2018). The Effect of Traffic to the Students of ICT 12-6 S.Y. Retrieved from
https://www.academia.edu/34930718/The_Effect_of_Traffic_to_the_Students_of_ICT_12-6_S.Y

Lifestyle.inquirer.net(2019). How traffic affects lives. Retrieved from

https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/224433/how-traffic-affects-lives/

Pacheco-Raguz, J.(2010). Journal of transport and land use. Assessing the impacts of Light Rail Transit on
urban land in Manila. Vol. 3, pp. 113-138

Gmanetwork.com(2015). Stress, pollution, fatigue: How traffic jams affect your health. Retrieved from
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/healthandwellness/536203/stress-pollution-fatigue-how-
traffic-jams-affect-your-health/story/