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Using GPS for Determining Level of Service for major and minor collectors in Lattakia City Center

استخدام نظام تحديد المواقع العالمي GPS لتحديد مستوى الخدمة على شوارع مركز مدينة اللاذقية

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 Publication date 2014
and research's language is العربية
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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 traffic 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.

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