Nakhon Sawan Municipality started building a bike route around Sawan Park for exercise purposes in 2013. The people in Nakhon Sawan Municipality are seriously encouraged to ride bicycles for exercise and use bicycles as their daily transportation mode. Nakhon Sawan Municipality is one of the first cities in Thailand that place importance on promoting Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) in order to solve traffic congestion problems, reduce environmental impacts, and enhance sustainability. Its location is where the Ping and Nan Rivers converge and form the Chao Phraya River, the most important waterway of Thailand. It serves as a major transportation hub and gateway to the northern region. Nakhon Sawan Municipality is a district in Nakhon Sawan Province located in the central part of Thailand.
The Thai government has realized the importance of this problem and determined a policy to promote Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) and Car Free Day with the aim to achieve sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation through the development of sidewalk and bike lane infrastructure throughout the country.
Although its traffic congestion was getting less over the two years, Thailand was still ranked the most traffic-congested country, out of 38 countries with the worst traffic in the world. Based on the report of INRIX that assessed the traffic conditions in 195 countries and ranked 38 countries with the worst traffic in the world, it was found that Thai drivers spent an average of 56 hours in traffic congestion during peak hours in 2016 and 61 hours in 2017. As a result, people in urban areas have inevitably experienced traffic congestion problems, as well as air and noise pollution issues. Moreover, the growth in a number of private cars during the last 10 years was reported at 631,290 cars per year. The number of private cars in Thailand is increasing tremendously, according to the statistics of registered vehicles in Thailand, out of a total of 39,461,672 registered vehicles, 9,749,260 of them are private cars. A private car is considered a popular mean of transportation. The distribution of new residential buildings begins to expand to suburban areas, whereas people still need to travel to the urban areas for work, education, public service, and shopping purposes every day. The current economic and social growth makes the urban areas of Thailand start to turn into dense residential areas, which are full of business centers and service complexes.
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