Traffic Congestion Management: Evaluating Challenges and Opportunities

The study aimed to look into the status of the traffic management in the municipality of Dumanjug, province of Cebu during the calendar year 2025 as basis for a propose measures for its improvement. The study focused on the twenty-eight (28) total respondents from the municipality of Dumanjug Traffic Enforcers and its community representatives. The researcher employed descriptive design using the quantitative and qualitative approach in this research study. This frequency distribution research made use of quantitative and qualitative approach and interview method in qualitative approach. This study employed researcher – adapted instruments. There were four (4) instruments utilized in this research, namely: 1.) the profile of the traffic enforcers. The second tool was the status of the traffic operations. This is being followed by the status of the traffic management. The last one is the interview guide or the focused group discussion. As to the perception of respondent groups of the causes of traffic congestion in the inadequacy of traffic system, the data illustrates that respondents seldomly experience issues related to the breakdown of the traffic system during peak hours) and the queuing of vehicles near junctions. Level of traffic operations as to distribution of duties as to strategies This highlights that most strategies to manage traffic, rarely have access to necessary operational equipment. As to the level of performance of the traffic enforcement management, when it comes to output the data illustrates that traffic enforcers consistently demonstrate good levels of performance in their output, Job Knowledge highlights that traffic enforcers demonstrate good competence across various cognitive and technical dimensions of the job, In the supervisory control data shown supervisory control received a good rating, but with several items bordering on the fair category. People Management is assessed as fair. These ratings highlight a notable deficiency in leadership practices. Association between the status of traffic operations and the level of performance of the traffic enforcement management the results show that among the traffic operational components, duties assigned to traffic enforcers have a notably strong relationship with performance, particularly with Output, as evidenced and a statistically significant. In the light of the findings, it is recommended that the output of the study would be implemented.