STUDY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC BUS ROUTES IN AL KUT CITY

Abstract

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 .