A Study of Problems and Solutions of Traffic Congestion in Khartoum City Using Geographical Information Systems

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a challenge for developed and non-developed countries. Khartoum city is one of the world's cities facing traffic congestion problems. The citizens of this city suffer from the queues of cars that fill the roads and delay their arrival to their destinations, because the traffic system suffers from many problems such as the large number of cars that brought to this city, and the roads are unfavorable. In addition to that the old planning of the study area that increase the problem. The objective of this research is to study traffic congestion in Khartoum city, Geographic information system (GIS) is used to handle spatial and descriptive data collected to help solving the traffic congestion problem in study area.