OVERVIEW | Iraq - Baghdad Transport Planning

[Holly-Transport]

Client Contact Name(s)

Roger Gorham, IMNT1 (MENA Transport Team)

Project Charge Code

No response

Project Manager

Sahiti Sarva and Maria Sol Tadeo

Project Sharepoint URL

No response

Project Web Book URL

http://datapartnership.org/iraq-baghdad-transport-planning/

Project Assignment

No response

[SahitiSarva]

The client wants to meet with basic results on 25th September. They want a map of jams by first week of October.

[SahitiSarva]

Notes from the 8th October call
Estimate the cost of congestion

Objectives for insights from the data

1. What criteria we will use for the transport engineer to do site inspection?
2. Identifying potential corridors for the introduction of mass public transit -- these would the regions with the high congestion.
3. Identify the other reasons for why congestion is happening -- this is what the site engineer will have to collect.
4. The consultant is getting a synthetic O-D matrix.

Questions -

1. Can we calculate the total number of active users in a given time
2. Value of congestion is calculated by getting the travel time.

Previous work done in Tunisia -

1. Trip length
2. OD Matrices

[SahitiSarva]

14th October Tunisia Congestion Call

Jai Kishan Malik from WB presented what they did in Tunisia.

• How many PCUs are on the road in peak hours?
• Modal share was calculated through guesstimation
• Scenario analysis
• Hypothesis: speed-flow curve is affected because there aren't delineated travelling lanes.
• The problem is not the demand for public transport but the supply. Tunisia has the potential to be a metropolitan for transport. In Baghdad, there are corridors in Baghdad that require public transportation.
• How did you get from travel time and speed to congestion

Material: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/c6b8238b-5a54-48fc-a344-833225b87928

[SahitiSarva]

Notes from Methodology discussion call on 24th October - Their project proposal plan and the new indicators they want to visualize

[SahitiSarva]

1. Magnitude
2. Spatial Extent (proportion of road network regularly congested)
   What does regularly mean?
3. Social Extent (proportion of population impacted by congestion)
4. Air Quality
5. Road safety

They have a meeting with the client in 1 month and show what is impressive and not do a quick and dirty analysis.

[SahitiSarva]

1. Show yearly aggregates for weekday group 1 (Sunday and Thursday) and weekday group 2 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) and weekends (Friday and Saturday) per road segment
2. Show monthly trends - a. peak hours of traffic, b. number of jams per category, c. Proportion of congested roads in traffic,