Study of performance standards for public transport between the cities of Latakia and Jableh

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 between 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.

Supporting Bituminous Road Surface Maintenance Decision Making by Using Project Priority Methodology Integrating With Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The importance of this research lies in establishing an integrated system to support decision making of bituminous road surface maintenance in Lattakia within the environment of Geographic Information Systems, which leads to improve the level of performance and reach better conditions of road safety and comfort. In a former research, the bituminous surface condition data was conducted and filled in the Asphalt Institute Form by which we obtained an overall condition rating that led in turn to the type of maintenance of each studied segment and link them to the digitized maps where every segment appeared in a color reflecting its condition according to the purpose of the map. In this research we depended on the " Project Priority Methodology " to view and query different alternatives to support decision making of which road segments should be maintained first by using five categories each one gives us a weighing value, then we collected the total weighed value for the five categories together, and link that to digitized maps that guaranteed fast and direct reach to various solutions to choose the best, insuring as a result that the traditional way in maintenance which begins with the worst segment is not always the best, and that its time to move towards new pavement maintenance management systems.

Realistic models of the forms of deformation and collapse in concrete road bridges caused by blast load

Blast load caused emptying a large amount of energy very quickly parts of the second causing a significant increase of pressure, in addition to generating high temperatures because of the high speed often ends local effects of the explosion before the bridge begins to respond, which causing major damage in the bridge. Most of bridge design codes didn’t take in account during design the blast load, as well there are no codes inspection on bridges the blast load. The research aims to study and to facilitate the understanding of damages caused by explosion load on elements of road bridges through the facts of explosion and photographs the cases of damages occurring practical and realistic, and also through some computer models.It has been in the research review the impact of the blast load on the slab bridges. The distinction between the case of the impact of the blast load at top and bottom of slab bridge. So the case of the bombing at the top slab bridge leading to increase the binding moments and shear forces, in against the case of blasting at the bottom of slab bridges leads to act opposite load for design loads. Also studied blast load on bridge beams and illustrated resulting addional cross sections. Also explained the effect of blast load on bridge piers and abutments, and the forms of caused damages.

Find the appropriate Quantitative indicators for evaluation the performance of public transport on rural roads Case study: Tartous- Al dreikish Line

Most of the villages and rural communities are suffering, particularly in Tartous region, of poor organization of transport and serve the people. Therefore the movement between rural and city become a great suffering for most people. This research presents an evaluation the quality of public transport on rural transport network based on a set of indicators and quantitative criteria that show us the case or the quality of rural transport, And it identify the most effective and appropriate criteria to the evaluation operation. In addition, take procedure to increase the effectiveness of service performance. This study was conducted on Tartous- Al dreikish axis which passes in steep mountainous area in some areas is what makes the subject of improving the performance of the public transport system on this axis is an important issue contribute to facilitate the traffic and transport, and reducing accidents on the many junctions. In this research will be to provide analysis, draw conclusions and make suggestions to the problem in this study.

Developing A Comprehensive Accident Report Template For Syria And Evaluating The Limitation In The Currently

The primary objective of this research is to assess the state of the road accidents’ data currently collected by using traditional text reports in the Syrian Arab Republic. The followed approach consisted of two main steps: (1) Developing a comprehensive road accident report template which contains all data items that should collected from a road accident . (2) Digitizing data from randomly selected traditional road accident text reports into a computer database developed based on the accident report template established in step 1.

Financial feasibility study and Legislations of the investments in the toll roads according to (public-private-partnership) (P.P.P) in Syria

This research Paper includes a realistic vision of the possibility of Depending on (Public-Private-Partnership) (P.P.P) as an effective element of investment in the construction of (Toll Road). The research included a study of the current central road network and plans through the aspirations of the Ministry of Transport in Syria, according to the legitimate and economic trends and that will make the Private sector as a partner in infrastructure projects, including road network in Syria. The essential objective of the research is to complete what was done previously by the Ministry of Transport through (economic feasibility study of highway projects Based on B.O.T system in Syria) and detailed search in the legislative and legal framework, which is expected to be issued to cover the legal side of this mega-project which will be done according to (Public-Private-Partnership) (P.P.P), furthermore it will be the major support to the Syrian economic wheel after the current crises and studying the profits of the proposed project to investment which is a freeway from northern Syria to the south and the other one from eastern Syria to the west, an indication of the results and recommendations display.

Technical study of investment with toll road projects in Syria

This research paper includes a general study of the possibility of investment in the Toll Road projects, this starts from previous data of transport system and road network in Syria with analysis existing data to start the future vision of the target central network of road in Syria, according to the expectations of traffic volumes and economic trends which is expected to make Syria the most important transportation node in the region. The essential objective of the research is to complete what was done by the Ministry of Transport represented by the public establishment for road communication (PERC) in a report (economic feasibility study of highway projects Based on B.O.T system in Syria(, where introduced the Ministry of Transport of those mega-projects to compete under the name of investment transport projects in accordance with (Public-Private-Partnership) (P.P.P) The technical side of the proposed project to investment was displayed and it is a freeway from northern Syria to the south and the other one from eastern Syria to the west with the factors affecting the project and evaluate the success or failure depending on the expected gains with an indication of the results and recommendations display.

Surveying method to infer road axis elements

This research related to the reappointment of the main roads and railways in the event of loss (Axis elements in the horizontal projected: Straight lines. Circular curves. Between these two elements are introduced Transit Curves), and also rehabilitation, commensurate with the developments taking place in the present time. The program is designed to also facilitate this work using the language of MATLAB. There are several questions present themselves: - What are the requirements for work (Field or desktop)? - What are the proposals for the development of the current reality of the road network and railways in the study area and rehabilitation? - What are the tools that allow transfer of theoretical study to a realistic work progress on the ground?

Using Pavement Management Systems ( PMS ) Along With Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ) In Roads Maintenance in Lattakia

This research highlights the vital role of Pavement Management Systems integrated with Geographic Information Systems in planning and managing road maintenance in Lattakia, and getting a flexible local system by following a new method in processing and viewing information that supports maintenance decision. This study included applying a pilot project for managing pavement maintenance over a group of roads following The General Establishment for Road Communications. Those roads were divided to links and segments then evaluated using the " Asphalt Institute Method ", which gave us a numeric pointer that led in turn to the type of maintenance needed for a particular pavement. In this research, we depended on the Geographic Information Systems to design and build a comprehensive database, that reflected the present condition of the studied roads, and enabled us to store, analyze and document pavement surface condition and link it to the digitized maps of the studied roads. This guaranteed easy and direct access to various kinds of data and solutions as every segment appeared in a different color reflecting its conditions according to the theme of the map. By doing so, we could support the process of taking right maintenance decisions.

Future Role of Lattakia and Tartous Seaports As Multimodal Transport Bases in the Arab Orient

This research concerns the future role of Latakia and Tartous seaports as bases of multimodal transport system in the Arab orient, the importance of the project is stemmed from the genuine strategic geographical location of Syria, assuming that this location could serve the future role of the Latakia and Tartous seaports as multimodal transport base in the Arab orient , as it is linked the Syrian hinterland through the land transport and rail road transport networks , which are extended to Iraq , from Iraq it extends to Iran to the east , Kuwait and Arabian Gulf to the south , the research problem concerns the absence of such multimodal system and the country regions do not make benefit from its economies , the research illustrated some of the relevant international conventions on multimodal transport concerning the transit of cargo and containers across countries , it also described the land transport and railroad transport across Iraq as it is the main hinterland state for Latakia and Tartous , the research concluded that the legislative and organizational framework could be applied to the proposed hypothesized project for Latakia and Tartous, it also concluded that the transport infrastructure could positively participate to the project despite the current deterioration in its technical and operational conditions due to the political events in the region , among the most important recommendations , for the mentioned countries to join the relevant international conventions or hold bilateral or multilateral conventions on multimodal transport , moreover , working on the improvement and development of land and railroad transport in the region for achieving multimodal transport high performance.