Geographic Analysis of Road Characteristics in Ankawa City by Using Geographical Informational System (GIS)
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This study deals with the characteristics of the road network in the city of (Ainkawa) using geographic information systems (GIS) techniques, specifically through the (ArcMAP 10.8) software programme. For the study to reach its analytical objectives, it is necessary to study the current situation of the road networks in the study area, where the total lengths of the road network in the city of (Ainkawa) reached (158 km), and it is in three categories (local roads 129.4 km, main road 18.6 km, highways 10 km). Many types of methods and equations have been used to reach the degree of network interconnection, and that this interconnection is through knowing the relationship between the network nodes and their connections. The number of nodes reached (1,170) nodes. In this study, we identified four types of indicators to know this interconnection, which are (beta - gamma - alpha - correlation index), and it showed that the road network in the study area includes more than one complete network in it and the degree of interconnection of the network is weak. And the use of tools within the program (ArcMAP 10.8) to analyze the transportation network, such as the degree of centralization of nodes (Mean Center, Central Feature and Standard Distance), as well as knowing the density of nodes, and network density, which showed the result of 15 km network length per km2, which is a high density that exceeds similar to the developed countries, which mostly reach (10.7) km/km2, and the developing countries, which reach (4.3) km/km (1).
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