Evaluation of Al-Kufa City Road Networks Using GIS

Abstract

Abstract One of the important points to develop any region is the suitable road network and understanding the relationship between land use and transportation system. To effectively develop any network, there is an urgent need to obtain proper connectivity and orientation. However, Al-Kufa road network has received significantly limited attention and studies to evaluate this network. Therefore, this study has focused on analyzing the present road network connectivity in Al-Kufa city. Furthermore, the GIS program has been adopted in this study to represent the main features in the city. Several measures have been adopted in this study to perform the evaluation for the road network such as beta index, gamma index, alpha index, spreading index, correlation index, etc. The main objective of this study is to assess how the road network is successful to containment the present road traffic and suggestions for future traffic movement performance to accommodate the growth. The results demonstrate that urgent improvements are required such as adding new roads. Finally, the network density could give better another important prediction of the road network measures.