Evaluation and Redesign Haifa and Yaffa Streets
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2016
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Ameen Dasoqi
Amjad Shhadi
Labeeb Asad
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A new road has been constructed recently by Nablus Municipality in order to reduce traffic on Rafidia Street. This road connects between Yaffa Street, which is parallel to Haifa Street, and Prince Mohammad Street and aims to reduce the traffic on Haifa and Rafidia Streets. The new road reduced the considerable delay and congestion levels on Rafidia Street, mainly because of shared-taxis that transport students to An-Najah University New Campus. These taxis can use Tunis Street instead of using Rafidia Street by passing through Yaffa Street. On the other hand, Haifa Street is considered one of the vital entrances to Nablus City from the west, where vehicles coming from Tulkarem, Jenin, and the suburbs and neighborhoods of Nablus and vice versa pass through it. Moreover, traffic volume on it has been increasing dramatically, which leads to increasing the average delay and congestion levels. In addition, Haifa Street has a considerable problem when it passes Al-Ain Refugee Camp area because of misuse of the street in that area and lack of systematic design and operation. The project aims to study this corridor Haifa and Yaffa Streets, and their connections with Prince Mohammad and Tunis Streets, and answer the question for each street is it good or not! Proper re-design, traffic management, and control is conducted as needed to accommodate the traffic demand properly. In this project, the researchers collected data for the traffic in the study area on a weekday before opening the new road and on a weekday after opening it, then analyzed and input these data in SYNCHRO program. Next, the new situation has been evaluated in order to solve the appeared traffic problems, considering the changes, which occur in the area where needed, modifications are proposed and examined using the program. It is noticed from the comparison between the simulated traffic conditions before and after opening the new street, that opening the road has positive effects on some intersections such as Ahmad Al-Shakah intersection. On the other hand, the analysis shows that there are negative effects on other intersections, such as Yaffa-Tunis intersection. The main changes in the geometric design were related to the number and widths of lanes for different links and intersections in the study area, phases time intervals on Haifa-Tunis intersection, phases time intervals approaches directions on Al-Salam intersection.
A new road has been constructed recently by Nablus Municipality in order to reduce traffic on Rafidia Street. This road connects between Yaffa Street, which is parallel to Haifa Street, and Prince Mohammad Street and aims to reduce the traffic on Haifa and Rafidia Streets. The new road reduced the considerable delay and congestion levels on Rafidia Street, mainly because of shared-taxis that transport students to An-Najah University New Campus. These taxis can use Tunis Street instead of using Rafidia Street by passing through Yaffa Street. On the other hand, Haifa Street is considered one of the vital entrances to Nablus City from the west, where vehicles coming from Tulkarem, Jenin, and the suburbs and neighborhoods of Nablus and vice versa pass through it. Moreover, traffic volume on it has been increasing dramatically, which leads to increasing the average delay and congestion levels. In addition, Haifa Street has a considerable problem when it passes Al-Ain Refugee Camp area because of misuse of the street in that area and lack of systematic design and operation. The project aims to study this corridor Haifa and Yaffa Streets, and their connections with Prince Mohammad and Tunis Streets, and answer the question for each street is it good or not! Proper re-design, traffic management, and control is conducted as needed to accommodate the traffic demand properly. In this project, the researchers collected data for the traffic in the study area on a weekday before opening the new road and on a weekday after opening it, then analyzed and input these data in SYNCHRO program. Next, the new situation has been evaluated in order to solve the appeared traffic problems, considering the changes, which occur in the area where needed, modifications are proposed and examined using the program. It is noticed from the comparison between the simulated traffic conditions before and after opening the new street, that opening the road has positive effects on some intersections such as Ahmad Al-Shakah intersection. On the other hand, the analysis shows that there are negative effects on other intersections, such as Yaffa-Tunis intersection. The main changes in the geometric design were related to the number and widths of lanes for different links and intersections in the study area, phases time intervals on Haifa-Tunis intersection, phases time intervals approaches directions on Al-Salam intersection.
A new road has been constructed recently by Nablus Municipality in order to reduce traffic on Rafidia Street. This road connects between Yaffa Street, which is parallel to Haifa Street, and Prince Mohammad Street and aims to reduce the traffic on Haifa and Rafidia Streets. The new road reduced the considerable delay and congestion levels on Rafidia Street, mainly because of shared-taxis that transport students to An-Najah University New Campus. These taxis can use Tunis Street instead of using Rafidia Street by passing through Yaffa Street. On the other hand, Haifa Street is considered one of the vital entrances to Nablus City from the west, where vehicles coming from Tulkarem, Jenin, and the suburbs and neighborhoods of Nablus and vice versa pass through it. Moreover, traffic volume on it has been increasing dramatically, which leads to increasing the average delay and congestion levels. In addition, Haifa Street has a considerable problem when it passes Al-Ain Refugee Camp area because of misuse of the street in that area and lack of systematic design and operation. The project aims to study this corridor Haifa and Yaffa Streets, and their connections with Prince Mohammad and Tunis Streets, and answer the question for each street is it good or not! Proper re-design, traffic management, and control is conducted as needed to accommodate the traffic demand properly. In this project, the researchers collected data for the traffic in the study area on a weekday before opening the new road and on a weekday after opening it, then analyzed and input these data in SYNCHRO program. Next, the new situation has been evaluated in order to solve the appeared traffic problems, considering the changes, which occur in the area where needed, modifications are proposed and examined using the program. It is noticed from the comparison between the simulated traffic conditions before and after opening the new street, that opening the road has positive effects on some intersections such as Ahmad Al-Shakah intersection. On the other hand, the analysis shows that there are negative effects on other intersections, such as Yaffa-Tunis intersection. The main changes in the geometric design were related to the number and widths of lanes for different links and intersections in the study area, phases time intervals on Haifa-Tunis intersection, phases time intervals approaches directions on Al-Salam intersection.