Page 88 - أبحاث كلية الهندسة

Appendix 2018 Publications
‫هندسة‬

Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering
Volume 12, No. 1, 2018

Management of Multi-Lane Highways in Jordan (Case Study)
Basim Jrew, Nidal Hussein and Rami Al-Kouz

Transportation industry is basically a service sector component. It is of important concern for
traffic engineers and planners to understand and evaluate the quality of service provided by
transport facilities. Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), with all its revisions since 1950, is the
pioneer document in this area. It quantified the concept of capacity for a transport facility and
laid the foundations for estimating the level of service (LOS) being provided by that facility to
its users. This study is concerned with traffic and highway management through evaluating
and improving a multi-lane highway in Jordan. It was conducted on Amman–Jerash multi-lane
rural highway as a case study. The highway is considered as a major arterial highway with
high traffic volume in Jordan. The traffic data was collected from the government records at
several departments in the Ministry of Public Works and Housing during summer in the year
2014. HCS-2000 and HCS-2010 software were used to evaluate the level of service (LOS) for
the existing condition (year 2014), short-term condition (year 2019) and mid-term condition
(year 2024). The evaluation shows that some of the highway segments are operating at LOS-E
or LOS-F for short-term and mid-term conditions. The highway segments that operated at
LOS-E or LOS-F for short-term or mid-term conditions were improved by modifying the
geometric and traffic conditions in order to operate the highway on better LOS, such as LOS-
C or LOS-D. Management flow diagrams were prepared to help decision makers make use of
a guide planning program for all rural multi-lane highways in Jordan.

https://jjce.just.edu.jo/issues/paper.php?p=4147.pdf

C