Accessibility analysis of roads network in Al-Qassim region

Abstract EN

There is wide debate on the role of the transport roads network and changes in accessibility on regional economic development.

However, any improvements in accessibility will lead to economic development.

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the accessibility of the roads network in the Al- Qassim region.

Three types of accessibility measures are used in analyzing the accessibility of roads: the Shimbel Index, the number of direct connections to other centers which is obtained directly from the connectivity matrix, and the number of nodes between every two nodes.

In accordance with the results of the study, the accessibility of roads able to contribute to regional economic development in the Al-Qassim region, thus reducing distances and bringing the peripheral regions closer to the central ones .