Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyze the structure of the road network in As-Salt City in the period between 2004 and 2016, in order to identify the road employability in terms of the degree of connectivity, rotation, accessibility, and density. The relationship between the social properties and road distribution are also examined through analysis of the network characteristics concerning population distribution. The data used in this study was based on the As-Salt City Municipality Database supported with fieldwork done in 2016. The network analysis approach using GIS was used to calculate the roads employability.
 
 The study compares between the results of the analysis using the cognitive model of the road network for the years 2004 and 2016, knowing that the number of nodes in 2004 and 2016 was constant indicating the number of neighborhoods is 20, while the number of links changed from 42 links in 2004 to 50 links in 2016 and the average center of roads was determined, and it was estimated that the average road center is located near the municipality of As-Salt
 
 The study indicates that the road network suffers from a low degree of communication and rotation and the standard distance of road sites in the study area. The standard distance for each group was 2338.49 m. There is a disparity in the distribution of road network within As-Salt City, and the proportion of roads lengths dose not suit the population distribution pattern. The neighborhood of Al- Salalem, includes 19.5% of the total number of roads in As-Salt, because the neighborhood of Al-Salalem contains the highest population census and this is accompanied by urban growth, which is necessarily accompanied by the presence of roads. Therefore, it is recommended to have a plan to redistribute the population in the city and to establish new roads to reduce the problems of traffic in the city.
Highlights
Residents benefit from a good transport system because they have easy access to their destinations and to all areas of the city they want to reach
The objective of this study is to analyze the structure of the road network in As-Salt City, in order to identify the reality of the road network in terms of the degree of connectivity, rotation, accessibility, density, and topography
The results show that As-Salt City takes irregular shape by analyzing the rate of rotation which is equal to (0.34)
Summary
Residents benefit from a good transport system because they have easy access to their destinations and to all areas of the city they want to reach. Allocation of high percentages of investment development plans for the transport sector. The transport sector plays an important role in the planning process in general, because it facilitates movement from one place to the other. Transportation is one of the most important human activities that is closely related to the place. It is reflected in different ways in our lifestyle. Human movements are composed of mutual relation between the road network as a place and humans as a user (Nawayseh, 2016)
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