النمو السكاني و أثره على حركة النقل والمرور في مدينة ود مدني : دراسة في جغرافية النقل الحضري

Abstract EN

This study examines population growth and its impact on the movement of traffic in the city of Wad Medani, which is linked to high rates of rural urban migration, high birth rate, and low death rate, which clearly affected the high rate of traffic congestion, and the importance of this study comes from the importance of the location of Medina and Medani, and it’s increasing economic and political importance, as a second city after the capital, Khartoum.

The study followed the descriptive analytical geographic approach in describing the study area, as well as the quantitative, analytical, statistical approach based on simple quantitative methods to estimate the volume of movement and daily movement of the population and the availability of transportation services for the population The study concluded to the most important results that the city of Wad Medani, by virtue of its location at the junction of paved transport roads in central Sudan, has become a commercial and economic center, where goods, goods and services flow to it, The increase in population increased the volume of traffic, increased the number of cars, and increased traffic congestion on the main roads in the city.

The study reached recommendations, the most important of which is to provide the necessary services to residents of neighborhoods such as hospitals, markets and schools to reduce daily transportation to the city center, expand main roads, organize parking lots, increase their carrying capacity to achieve sufficient flexibility in movement, and avoid traffic jams.