REASONS AND POSSIBLE REMEDIES FOR BAGHDAD CITY TRAFFIC CONGESTION

摘要

Congestion is everywhere. It arises in human activities of all kinds, and its consequences are usually negative. Peak demands for goods and services often exceed the rate at which that demand can be met, creating delay. That delay can take the form of supermarket check-out lines, and long waits for a table at a popular restaurant. Automobile congestion has myriad impacts, from wasted fuel and added emissions to frayed nerves, more expensive goods, and elevated crash rates. Its clearest impact is delay, or lost time. Baghdad city experienced severe traffic congestion. Especially in the present few years, and this normal in the absence of any modern techniques and traffic management studies to relive or alleviate some of the adverse consequences of congestion mentioned above. In the present research a public questionnaire were made for an educational staff in one of Baghdad universities, some important questions were involved in this questionnaire like the presence of congestion places, time spent in the street, the possible reasons for traffic congestion, the volubility of building new interchanges and tunnels in Baghdad at specific locations, and the recommended remedies and solution for this problem. The analysis of answers shows some important points as follows: the grater participant factor in traffic congestion from their point of view is the military check points that separated over the whole city (i.e. Baghdad), and then the blocking and narrowing of many streets in the capital for safety precautions near governmental institutions, in addition to above reasons the huge increase in the number of cars in Iraq and especially in Baghdad City after the war in 2003. The main solutions suggested by the sample were concentrating on removing or reducing from these check points and reopening the closed streets and bridges.