Transportation is the most urgent issue that Yangon facing nowadays. The development of city is incredibly increasing overtime which leave a big gap between transportation infrastructures and increased density during urbanization process. The road network infrastructure development is unbalanced between north part and southern part. Different modes’ networks plan and coordination is poor. The users’ experiences of physical environment of traffic modes as main agents of Transportation infrastructure is bad.

In 2040, overall, the government is going to upgrade the transportation infrastructure capacity by building an outer ring road. Subway and new highways will be arranged radially in order to link the central with a higher efficiency. It seems that the government is expected to increase the use of cars and public transportation to response to the expected population growth like many metropolitan cities in Asia. In order to response to the economic growth, the transfer functions of cargo in old Yangon port will be moved down to the new economic zone.

It make Dala become a critical point that all the ports between dala and old yangong will be for commuting. And it still missing the direct connection to the New economic zone. It is still wait to be seen that whether the single subway and highway will be enough to response to the future population growth and the overcrowded CBD. However, as the least developed part of this future transportation network, DALA area, enjoys huge potential especially on the water transportation . 

Even the new subway and highway are planned. The formal and informal ferry would be the major connection between Dala and old Yangon and SEZ in the near future because of the convenience. Thus, it makes Dala area a critical point to narrow the gap of yangon's transportation infrastructure development in the future.

© 2017 by Ting Wang, Ming Yang, Boyang Zhang, Shaoyin Zhang, Shuqi Zhang