Trip production modeling for selected zone in al-Amarah City

Joint Authors

al-Haddad, Abd al-Haqq Hadi Abdali
Qasim, Ghufran J.

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Natural & Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

English Abstract

The initiation of this study was made with the objective of building the predicted household trip production models for Al-Amarah city that involve the socioeconomic characteristics and land use trends.

For the purpose of this study, Al-Amarah city was divided into 5 sectors with 113 zones.

2923 home questionnaire forms were distributed in the city through arrangements with the secondary, industrial, commercial schools, administrations and some colleges and 1177 forms were distributed for full home interview purpose.

In fact a concentrated briefing to the respondents was demonstrated before the distribution of the forms.

The questionnaires and home interview response rate was 76.44 %.

The collected data was analyzed and classified in order to qualify the social and economical features in each zone.

The relationship between daily household trips and socioeconomic characteristics were developed using stepwise regression technique (Multiple Linear Regression ,MLR) after the collected data being feed to SPSS software version 20, Results showed that trip production model mainly depends on family size, gender, the number of workers and the number of student in the family.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-786871

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