The Sustainable Development of the Land Transport System in Salah Al-Din Governorate

Abstract

* The road transport system consists of many elements, which are networks of paved roads of many types, railway networks, pipelines for the transport of petroleum products, in addition to electric power transmission networks as well as cargo and passenger transport systems.

     * The research problem is represented by the weakness and low production capacity of transportation networks in Salah al-Din Governorate, and accordingly, the research assumed a preliminary solution that represented the weakness and decline referred to as a result of deficiencies in modernizing transport systems and the growing urgent need to build more of them.

     * The research aims to define accurately the development of projects of transportation systems that must be implemented according to their priorities so as to achieve their sustainable development, especially road networks.

      * The research followed the methodology of assessing the efficiency of the road network using a descriptive approach alongside the quantitative analysis of network variables.

       * The research includes three axes. The first deals with the spatial distribution of the main and secondary paved road network, and the second includes the geographic foundations of the road network.  The third axis includes the kinetic effectiveness of the network. The research concludes certain findings  according to the examined axes.