Regional Transportation’s Planning Implications for Large Cities

Abstract

Internationally, the number of large cities and megacities is growing. The way major cities and megacities manage their unique advantages and hazards will either degrade or improve the quality of life for their residents. Lack of new transportation garages in the areas and suburbs of Baghdad Governorate that can accommodate foreign trips and redistribute them before entering the boundaries of Baghdad Municipality of, unplanned spatial distribution of existing transit garages, and no plans to define and separate external transport trips from internal trips, which are part of the management of the transport system. Due to heavy traffic flow between vehicles and pedestrians as well as between vehicles themselves, the area around public garage suffers, which has a severe impact on the city’s ability to breathe and its connections to other areas. The goals of the current study are to ascertain the impact of regional transportation on Baghdad transportation planning, specifically in terms of the location’s regional garages (Public Garage) and in terms of external-internal (and vice versa) trips came from outside of Baghdad administrative boundaries to regional garages locations. In order to accomplish these goals, a questionnaire form was created and 150 samples were given out to passengers, drivers of outside transportation vehicles, and garage operators. According to the survey’s findings, commercial travel accounts for the biggest percentage of regional visits (22-24%), followed by health travel (20%), with educational travel declining by 10% as a result of the current Corona pandemic. The majority of regional travel occurs in the relatively close-by provinces that surround Baghdad City, with Hilla entrances accounting for 40% of such travel, followed by Kirkuk entrances (16%). Factors that affect vehicle movement include traffic congestion (73%) and climatic conditions (21%), both of which have an immediate effect on drivers, passengers, and vehicles. The sustainable solutions may entail extending geographic and temporal frames of reference for long-range planning and expanding performance measures to capture appropriate planning inputs that evaluate planning effectiveness in accordance with desired outcomes for supraregional planning that involves multiple states and a cogent vision and standards for the national transportation system.