1.
INTRODUCTION new roads, or separating grades (positioning road
Roads are the veins the economy pumps into. Roads
are crucial to any development agenda by connecting
producers to markets, staff to jobs, students to
schools, and the sick to hospitals. More than 260,000
km of roads are constructed or rehabilitated by the
World Bank. This pays more for highways than a mix
of education, health, and social services. (Berg,
Deichmann and Selod, 2015).
As assessed by Asian Development Bank on
2012, road transport is by far the dominant subsector
in the Philippine transport system accounting for 98%
of passenger traffic and 58% of cargo traffic. Of the
31,400 km of national roads in the system, only about
45% (14,200 km) were assessed as being in good or
fair condition in November 2011. The total length of
national roads in the CALABARZON Region is
2,517.66 kilometers as of 2016. The major cause of
the overall low quality of the road network is poor
and inadequate maintenance. This is the result of (i)
insufficient financial resources being made available
for maintenance, and (ii) inadequate institutional
capacity of agencies responsible for road
maintenance. The high prevalence of overloading of
trucks also contributes to the low quality of the
network.
According to the consolidated report from
distributor and manufacturer groups AVID
(Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors),
CAMPI (Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of
the Philippines) and TMA (Truck Manufacturers
Association), the Philippine auto industry sold 97,375
vehicles in the first quarter of 2019.
In an annual report published by the Land
Transportation Office (LTO), a total of 11,595,434
vehicles were registered in 2018. Region IV-A or the
CALABARZON region ranks second place with the
home of the greatest number of vehicles comprising
1,515,031 motor vehicles at the end of 2018 that will
eventually result to the increase of traffic volume.
Furthermore, traffic congestion has always
been an ongoing problem, particularly on major roads
such as those in densely populated metropolitan areas
such as Batangas City. The congestion problem is not
easy to deal with, and a variety of solutions have been
suggested and implemented to address the challenge.
These solutions require that existing traffic
assignment models be created or improved.
According to Villarete (2018), the most logical move
to combat traffic congestion is to increase road space.
Increasing road space can mean many things —
widening the road (usually by adding lanes), building
lanes above or below existing ground level lanes).
CALABARZON Traffic Management Plan
2017-2022 defined volume capacity ratio as the ratio
of vehicles passing a point in one hour with the
maximum number of cars that can pass a certain point
at the reasonable traffic condition. It is used to assess
traffic status.
On the other hand, transport is vital for
economic activities to function well and is a key to
ensuring social well-being and people's cohesion.
Transport ensures the mobility of people on a daily
basis and is essential for the production and
distribution of goods. Adequate infrastructure for
transport systems is a basic precondition. But planners
and politicians need to recognize that the needs of
rapidly growing populations cannot be met by a large
number of world transport systems. We need to
embrace new methods and new technologies if we are
to build and operate transport systems that deliver
these goals while working inclusively for everyone's
benefit. Investors need to reconsider conventional
cost-benefit analysis methods to capture as many of
the different transport impacts as possible, and do so
in a way which blends rigor with creativity.
Meanwhile, as per United Nations
Sustainable Goals 2019, every country must build
resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation. In addition,
Sharma, Sharma, and Vashist (2008) stated that
infrastructure and industrial development are
interrelated. Proper infrastructure facilities play an
important role in the industrialization of any region on
the one hand and on the other hand industrial
development of any region affects the development of
infrastructural facilities.
With regards to this, the current study aims
to determine the relationship of industrialization to
the vehicle volume and traffic volume in Batangas
City.
2. OBJECTIVES
Generally, this study aims to provide analyzed data
that will help improve the road management and may
also give an idea on implementing support
infrastructures aligned with the industrialization and
to enhance traffic flow in Batangas City.
Specifically, this is also focused on
determining the relationship that exists between the
vehicle volume, industrialization and traffic density in
Batangas City.

Table 2. Correlation between industrialization and

traffic volume
3. METHODS
This study aims to determine the relationship of Industrialization Vehicle
industrialization to the vehicle volume and traffic
volume in Batangas City. With this, the   Rate Volume
researchers used data analysis tools such as Industrialization
correlation method and regression analysis.
rate 1  
Using the gathered data, first, correlation
Vehicle
method was used to know the significant
relationship between industrialization and number volume 1 1
of vehicles as well as the relationship between
industrialization and traffic density in Batangas
City through Microsoft Excel. Correlations between
these variables are important because they indicate Table 2 indicates the correlation between
some underlying relationship between them. industrialization and traffic volume in Batangas City.
It reveals that there is also a positive linear
Consequently, the researchers performed the
relationship between the industrialization and traffic
regression analysis to determine the extent to which
volume of the city in 2016-2018. This data will
there is a linear relationship between industrialization,
contribute an analyzation about industrialization and
traffic density and vehicle volume.
traffic volume and how it will be resolved and be
improved.
Regression Statistics
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Table
The following are the results and discussion with
3. Multiple R 0.430872648
regards to analyzed data:
R Square 0.185651239
Table 1. Correlation between industrialization and
vehicle volume Adjusted R Square -0.425110332

Standard Error 34.71064667

Industrialization Vehicle
Observations 8
  Rate Volume

Industrialization Summary output of regression statistics

rate 1  

Vehicle

volume 1 1

Table 1 shows the correlation between

industrialization and vehicle volume in Batangas City.
It depicts that there is a positive linear relationship
between the industrialization and vehicle volume of
the city in 2016-2018. This will help analyze certain
matters involving the used variables.

Table 3 details the summary output of regression

statistics between industrialization, vehicle volume
and traffic volume in Batangas City. It depicts that the
strength of the relationship between the relative
movements of the variables is 0.40872648 which says
there is a moderate/weak positive relationship that
exist in them. While the coefficient of determination
which has 0.185651239 represent the proportion of
the variance in the vehicle volume and
industrialization that is predicted from the data of
traffic volume. On the other hand, there is
-0.425110332 for the adjusted R square and
34.71064667 for the standard error. Through this, the
researchers identified which variables have impact on
a topic of interest. The process of performing a
regression allows them to confidently determine
which factors matter most, which factors can be
ignored, and how these factors influence each other
that can also help in some other fields.

5. CONCLUSIONS
With the results of the study, the following
conclusions were drawn.

Based on the analyzed data, it implies that

there is a positive significant relationship of
industrialization to the vehicle volume and traffic
volume wherein there is a moderate/weak positive
relationship that exist in them thus, this clearly
reveals that industrialization strongly affect vehicle
volume and traffic density in Batangas City. This can
be used in improving road management and may also
give an idea on implementing support infrastructures
aligned with the industrialization and to enhance
traffic flow in Batangas City.