Abstract
Abstract. In recent years, the city of Mosul, which is the capital city of Nineveh province in the North of Iraq, had witnessed an unstable situation (e.g., wars, internal conflicts) that led to destructing most of the infrastructure including city roads. In addition, the population of Mosul is currently concentrated on the east coast of the city. Therefore, this situation has caused a server traffic jam and the roads have become overloaded, which is time-wasting when accessing a particular place in the city. In this analytical study, the roads of the east coast of Mosul city are modeled in the form of a Road Network. The proposed approach is based on concepts inspired from Complex Networks and their measurements such as clustering coefficient, betweenness, degree, and closeness. The dataset of this work was collected from Google Earth with the support of governmental offices and road-experienced individuals. The created network represents the road network of Mosul city. In the results, suggestions and recommendations are provided, which can contribute to alleviating the problem of traffic congestion in the city of Mosul. The provided suggestions do not need a high cost because the proposed approach benefits the current road networks with few modifications. The proposed approach is applicable to any city of interest.
Highlights
Today's world is witnessing a great revolution in technology
The average degree of 3.667 is considered low since it reflects that intersections are weakly connected, which is not desired in road networks
The road networks of the east coast of Mosul city were modeled using concepts inspired from complex networks
Summary
Today's world is witnessing a great revolution in technology. This revolution has affected our lives in many different aspects. Some cities are considered to be highly-populated (metropolitan cities), while other cities are low populated (micropolitan cities). This specific level is determined by the size of the city and how the population is deployed in the physical environment of the city [1]. The issue in metropolitan cities is the limitation in the movements of people due to the crowded roads and the high traffic load on streets. High levels of a crowd or a day-rush-hours yield time-wasting for people [1]. Most people spend hours on roads daily making road networks a crucial part of their daily lives [2]
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