A GIS Model for the Assessment of Road Closures & their Impacts on Travel Time ,Travel Distance & Pollution in the West Bank
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2013
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ANAS TOMEH
AHMAD ALLOOSH
HAYTHAM MASHAQ
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The West Bank is suffering from mandatory practices under the Israeli occupation in which all sectors are affected, including transportation sector specifically under the influence of Israeli checkpoints. Such practices cause Traffic congestion, which in turn leads to delays. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact Israeli road closures on the transportation network in terms of accessibility, delay, and pollution. Data collection is performed, and then the software ArcGIS (Geographic Information System: which is a software that works with maps and geographic information) was used to develop a GIS models that is capable of generating service areas, travel distance, pollution generating from vehicles through traveling, time needed to travel to another location through many ways and under the many conditions, to come up with the best route and offer it to the drivers. Using the models outputs, these impacts can be easily analyzed and documented. Also the drivers now can save time by making the right decisions based on the obtained results. Alongside calculating time, pollution and length of travel, the obtained model can be further processed to suit other areas, so it can be used anywhere.