• Dr. Gitumoni Rajbongshi

Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya has been facing roadway congestion increasingly with rapid growth of population, socio-economic activities and vehicular movement giving rise to a number of negative externalities. The objective of the study was to find out the impacts of traffic congestion the private individuals, taxi drivers and businessmen. This study tried to examine to examine the impacts of traffic congestion on the number of trips made by the commuters, extra time spent due to traffic congestion, extra fuel expenditure and on the impact on Net profit. The results of the t-test in case of Private Car Owners, Taxi drivers cum owners and Businessmen are found to be significant at one per cent level of significance thereby rejecting the null hypotheses of no significant variation in those target variables due to variation in traffic congestion.

Impacts of traffic congestion, t-test analysis, decline in number of trips, fuel expenditure, Net profit, Shillong

"T – Test Analysis of the Impacts of Traffic Congestion in the City Shillong", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.1444-1451, June 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006543.pdf

"T – Test Analysis of the Impacts of Traffic Congestion in the City Shillong", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no. pp1444-1451, June 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006543.pdf