Improvement of Transportation Network of Al-Muwaffaqiyah Town Using Gis | ||
| Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2014, Pages 229-245 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maha Osama Almumaiz | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Al-Muwaffaqiyah Town lies on Wasit Governorate south east of Baghdad City. This town is divided into two sides by Al Gharraf River. The needing to travel between these two sides creates traffic concentration on the one existing bridge. Therefore, the construction of another bridge can help to improve the transportation network of this town. Transportation planning process (find the best route) can be considered as a strategic, important and complex issue in the same time, due to collecting information and analyzing data to reach to the optimum network (journeys of shortest routes) in order to saves time, to reduce cost, fuel, noise, and air pollution. By using GIS, the network can be analyzed and found the optimum route based on the shortest travel’s time between origin and destination of journey by using the software’s algorithm. Moreover, the ability of GIS to generate detailed directions along the route, providing as-you-need-it solutions for common problems. An application of GIS tool can help to solve this problem. So Al-Muwaffaqiyah town is divided into 13 Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ). The centered of each zone is obtained in order to compute the shortest time between each two zones. The GIS algorithm divides the network into nodes (where lines join, start or end) and the paths between such nodes are represented by lines. In addition, each line has an associated cost representing the cost (length or time) of each line in order to reach a node. There are many possible paths between the origin and destination, but the path calculated depends on which nodes are visited and in which order. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Geographic information systems; Network analysis; Muwaffaqiyah Town | ||
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