Baghdad city depended on the private auto in transport and this led to great problems with increasing congestion and traffic problems. Existing public transport suffers from poor accessibility to opportunities which is considered the main existing problem. The local agency decided to construct Baghdad Elevated Train as one of the keys to solve this problem and decrease congestion. This study aims to discuss the changes that the installing of the planned train line could make, by using the Geographical Information System (GIS) to model the transportation networks (sidewalks, public transport network, and the planned elevated train) for two scenarios, first for the current public transport network and second for the long-term situation of the adding of the planned train, furthermore, to find the coverage area for each station and determine the population can be served for each station depending on the census of the zones for the year 2020. The modeled network databases were used to create the closest facility between the centroid of the 43 zones and the selected facilities (Commercial, Educational, Governmental, and Hospitals). The results revealed that the additional service of the train reduced the travel time between Al-Sadr City to four destinations selected for the mentioned facilities by the following percentages (62%, 40%, 46%, and 65%) respectively. Moreover, the population coverage stated that stations 8, 9, and 10 are the most populated.

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Bus as a public transport is a suitable service to meet the travel demand between any two zones. Baghdad faced with severe traffic problems along with the development in city size and economy. Passengers have to wait lots of time during commutation to work because of the serious traffic jams. In the last years, rate of car ownership has increased as income levels have gone up and cars have become a preferable mode of transport. Bus, as the only public mode of transport available, is suffering from inconvenience, slowness, and inflexibility. A big emphasis must be given to the public transport system because it introduces an active utilization of limited resources, energy and land. This study determines the demand of public routes for buses using boarding / alighting values to generate a model and assign these demand values to the bus network. Five public routes were selected to collect the required data. Ride check and Point check survey was conducted for each selected route. The results of this study were public demand assigned to the selected bus routes, dwell time, load factor and headway. It is observed that R1 and R3 have the heaviest travel demand; they need special study to improve bus performance and make better transit. The model developed with only limited data available to predict travel demand will assist transportation planners and related agencies in decision making.

This paper focused on studying the service characteristics of bus routes in the city of Kut, such as determining the stopping points for each of the public transport lines in the study area, the total boarding and disembarkation of passengers at each station, determining the location of the bus route, time, distance traveled and the number of passengers in the bus, estimating the demand of passengers on the bus route. This study aims to assess the efficiency of the performance of the public transport network and help decision makers to identify the problem of traffic congestion in the streets of the city for take the necessary measures to make improvements to the public transport network and thus encourage citizens to use them, which contributes to alleviating the traffic of congestion in the streets of the city , as the number of bus service lines in the city of Kut was 12 routes throughout the city. Two types of field surveys were conducted on these routes for the purpose of data collection, namely the ride check survey, and the point check survey. The results of the analysis in this study, which depended on collecting data and determining where and how passengers used the service, showed that the paths (Al-Sawadah, Al-Khajia, Al-Anwar, Al-Hawra) have the greatest demand for travel with a value of (2880, 2810, 2560, 2392) passenger/hour respectively. Also the boarding and alighting of passengers is not high in most of the roads and that some roads are of low load .