Dear Advisor,

Our City of Hustleton needs your help with a severe traffic problem.

We are happy that the city is becoming an attractive place for businesses, but there are now too many cars on the roads, and it's causing a lot of traffic.

Currently, during rush hours, it takes the city residents an average of around $60$ minutes of commuting to get to work from their homes, and they$$re getting frustrated. We want to find ways to bring this average commute time down to $30$ minutes.

We have $5$ years to achieve this goal, but we can't wait any longer to start, because the traffic is getting worse every day. There could be many issues contributing to the traffic, and I am aware that we won$$t be able to solve them all. So$,$ we need your urgent support with the following:

$1.$ Ensure the problem is clearly defined for all stakeholders

$2.$ Identify a list of potential issues that could be leading to this problem

$3.$ Before jumping into any solutions to those issues, prioritize two issues that we should focus on analysing further as a next step

My aim is to initiate the analysis of two priority issues; hence your prioritization will help us pick the most important issues and get to work!

To help you get started, we have data about the different modes of transportation that people use in the city.

Best regards,

Mayor of Hustleton City

$2.$ Issue Tree Worksheet

Use the below worksheet to help you with the second step in this assignment: identifying a list of potential issues that could be leading to the problem.

You can do this by taking the problem statement you've defined and writing it as the Level $0$ of your tree. Then break down that problem by identifying two or three smaller issues that could be leading to the problem and write them in Level $1$ of the tree $($Boxes$,$ A$,$ B and C$).$ Then take each of the smaller issues and further break down each one into smaller issues that could be solved and write them in Level $2$ of the tree. Use a similar sentence structure across all your input starting with $$How can we$.....$

Doing the issue tree is a very iterative process. You will need to go back and forth and try a few different ways to get it exactly right.

Use the below worksheet to help you with the third step in this assignment: prioritizing two issues that should analyzed more deeply. To data that, you should consider all the issues you wrote in the Level $2$ of your issue tree. Which ones would you place in the highlighted quadrant of this two by two matrix. The quadrant called $$High Impact $$ High Feasibility$.$