Lattakia City has faced many negative impacts of the extending crisis that Syria lives, such as defensive arrangements of most governmental facilities, and refuging millions of other Syrian cities citizens. This new situation was reflected on the tra
ffic conditions on most streets and roads of city, especially on center streets. In addition it caused many traffic congestions, which led to investigate and analyze the current situation and finding traffic solutions for reducing these congestions on center streets.
In this paper, the “moving observer” concept was used to measure travel time and average speed on major and minor collectors in Lattakia center. The vehicle was equipped with a GPS to collect necessary information, a number of trips was executed during daily peak period and free flow speed; then the data was processed and analyzed to generate max, min, and average speeds, constructing LOS for these streets.
Study disclosed low values of LOS for some major collectors in the city, and expressed the need to take urgent arrangements to increase LOS on streets. The efficiency of “moving vehicle” concept was proved in implementing traffic studies.
Most of the villages and rural towns, in general, and in Latakia, in particular, suffer from
poor transport organizing and Serving of people so that travelling has become a great
suffering for most people. After studying the transport situation bet
ween Jableh and
Latakia, we found that this city suffers from transport problems like other cities. This is
because of transport poor management and regulation including timing, the number of
vehicles available and inability to meet demand, which causes a deterioration in service
quality.
The research provided a comprehensive method to evaluate the performance of public
transport on the road by evaluating travel time, the journey speed, and the buses volume
and frequency. Considering these indicators as a criterion for evaluating the performance
of public transport to determine the most effective factors regarding the quality of
performance of public transport and improve this performance in future. A field and
practical study of the research has been conducted, which includes selecting of study sites,
collecting engineering and traffic data, designing of questionnaires and distributing them
on random passengers and drivers working on Jableh - Lattakia transportation road to find
out their opinions. Then the data has been inserted into SPSS Statistics Base program for
analyzing the results.
The research has concluded that the performance of public transport between Jableh and
Latakia is generally weak, and the largest proportion of passengers depend on their
mobility on minibuses, which does not satisfy the required transportation level. Therefore,
a range of solutions has been developed depending on local conditions which will ease the
burden of mobility and raise the transportation performance level.
