Contribution To The Development of The Collection And The Transfer Processes of Solid Waste In Lattakia City Using Geographical Information Systems

The process of collecting and transporting solid waste is the first and fundamental issue in the management of solid waste as it is the most economically expensive operation, in which its expenses in the process of system of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) reaches about 60-70% of the total expenditure. This process starts from placing waste in containers till unloading these containers in transportation vehicles and then carry them to transfer stations or final disposal sites. The fees of collection and transportation can be reduced through the selection of the optimal path, and thus obtaining many economical benefits. In this research, the applications of geographical information systems (GIS) have been used in order to choose the optimal route for waste collection, transportation and transference in the city of Lattakia, Where a database has been designed which included mainly the streets, bridges and tunnels, it also included residential areas serviced by waste containers, and the process of linking them to each other took place by using the techniques of GIS in order to choose the best economical and timetable ways for the traffic of vehicles to collect and transport the waste, which contributes practically and effectively in improving the activities of municipal solid waste management in this city.

Integration Between Tourist Data and GIS To Determine The Tourist Routine(Application Study On Tartous)

This paper presents the producing of touristic tour using tourist data and management the data in GIS environment by using the extension network analyst in ARCGIS to find the better time routine with time as obstacle. The base map was the tourist map for Tartous with scale 1:250 000. DTM and several three dimension data was generated for studying area for helping people to know nature of the area, by using the topographic map for Tartous with scale 1/250000 . Also, in this research the spatial tourist data base was generated for Tartous province using GIS which contains data about road, town, ruins sites, services ( like oil stations, restaurants and hotels and others serve the tourist). Network analyst was applied on ruins sites in Tartous province to calculate the better routine from the hotel to supposed several ruins sites. The integration between tourist data and ArcGIS software with its extension network analyst can help for obtaining better touristic services by determining the better touristic tour to visit the desirable touristic sites in short time.