- Asian Development Bank (Funding Partner)
- Dr. Tomoki Fujji, Professor,Singapore Management University, Singapore.
- Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy, Associate Professor, Florida International University, USA
- Dr. Prottoy Akbar, Assistant Professor, Aalto University, Finland
- Md Enamul Haque
- H. M. Masudur Rahman
- Neeti Zaman Bintee
The study will primarily evaluate the impacts of the Dhaka Metro Rail (DMR) on socioeconomic travel patterns, focusing on transport modes, travel costs, and travel durations for both households and business enterprises. It seeks to quantify welfare gains across areas and socioeconomic groups while examining mechanisms such as employment economics, travel, and transit-oriented development. Using quantitative method, data will be collected from 2,800 households and 2,800 business entities across DNCC and DSCC, geospatial information from platforms like Google Maps, office and residential property market data from major real estate websites, labor market information including job title, sector, wages, and company location, ward-level economic and pollution indicators, and Metro Line 6 ridership data, providing a comprehensive assessment to inform urban planning, policy, equitable, sustainable urban development.
In Dhaka, one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, Dhaka Metro Rail (DMR) is the first inner-city rail transit service, and its first line, MRT Line 6 has opened in December 2022. The DMR is expected to ease endemic traffic congestion and poor mobility within Dhaka. As we know, large-scale mass transit projects like the DMR affect travel conditions in the entire city, and not just along their routes. They also have citywide impacts on housing markets, air & sound pollution, gender equality, labor market informality, population decentralization, and the city’s long-term growth, among others. However, a comprehensive assessment of a transportation infrastructure project is rarely undertaken by governments or donors despite its importance for sustainable development. In 2022 and 2023 MOMODa FOUNDATION has conducted similler research in DNCC, in this time this research will be conducted in both DNCC and DSCC.