Investigating and managing the characteristics of travel behavior and travel patterns for the University of Kufa and suggestion a future transportation plan

Abstract EN

Educational institutions are one of the main trip generators and distributors in the cities around the world.

The main campus of the University of Kufa has more than 10 faculties with more than 12,000 people (staff and students).

This makes the university is one of the high attracting area of trips in the city.

These attracted trips use different modes of transportation such as taxi, private car, min-bus and even walking mode.

This study aims to investigate the travel behavior and travel patterns for the current trips and put the suitable suggestions for shifting the travel characteristics using efficient modern modes of transportation.

More than 4000 samples have been investigated using interviews asking about the origin, the purpose of trips and the mode of trips.

The results of this analysis indicate the urgent need for improving the current transportation system by encouraging public transport such as bus and tram.

Moreover, there is a need for improving the design and traffic management for the gates of the university.