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Truck Movements Roads Network Strategic Study
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Locations:Saudi Arabia
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Sectors: Research, Transport
Description
Client: Traffic Safety Signature Program (TSSP) - ARAMCO
Project Description: The Eastern Province is clearly the centre of industrial activity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the strategic gateway to international trade both within the Kingdom and externally to Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE and beyond.
As a result of its industrial success, its transportation of freight has increased significantly over the last 10 years or so and its strategic highway network has come under pressure with regards to congestion, bottlenecks, accidents, truck overloading and border crossing control and process.
The principle factors requiring a study of truck movements in the Eastern Province include:
- Congestion along links and junctions
- Continued growth of truck traffic in the province
- Increasing number of accidents involving trucks
- Truck violations with regards to overloading and over-heights
- Excessive speed on inter-urban highways
- Damage to the road pavement due to axle overloading
- Lack of regular use of the existing axle load stations
- The need for additional axle load stations
- Review of regulations related to the transport of hazardous material
- The need for regulation of truck movements within the urban areas
- The lack of and use of truck parking facilities
- The lack of a coherent and effective plans for the control of trucks entering the urban areas
- The need to improve road signing related to the control of trucks on intern urban and urban highways
- The need to review the level is skills of existing truck drivers and the need for additional training.
- The need to control the numbers of working hours of truck drivers and their assistants (if any)
The purpose of the study is to assess and identify issues and problems with regards to truck traffic in the Eastern Province and to subsequently develop a comprehensive strategic plan with time scales and estimated costs for the short, medium and long term actions. Specific objectives include:
Review current trucks movement in the Eastern Province.
Identify all routes, links and interchanges where there are congestion.
Develop a method that identify major origin-destinations for the goods movements in the Province
Develop 10-20 year action plan with thirty years’ time horizon to address issues that helps and regulate the movements of trucks in the area
Services Provided
- Data Collection
- Interviews/Workshops With Truck / Freight Organizations In Both The Road And Rail Sectors
- Traffic Study
- Network Inventories
- Socio-Economic Assessment
- Analysis And Development Of Options
- Strategic Master Plan
Project Description: The Eastern Province is clearly the centre of industrial activity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the strategic gateway to international trade both within the Kingdom and externally to Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE and beyond.
As a result of its industrial success, its transportation of freight has increased significantly over the last 10 years or so and its strategic highway network has come under pressure with regards to congestion, bottlenecks, accidents, truck overloading and border crossing control and process.
The principle factors requiring a study of truck movements in the Eastern Province include:
- Congestion along links and junctions
- Continued growth of truck traffic in the province
- Increasing number of accidents involving trucks
- Truck violations with regards to overloading and over-heights
- Excessive speed on inter-urban highways
- Damage to the road pavement due to axle overloading
- Lack of regular use of the existing axle load stations
- The need for additional axle load stations
- Review of regulations related to the transport of hazardous material
- The need for regulation of truck movements within the urban areas
- The lack of and use of truck parking facilities
- The lack of a coherent and effective plans for the control of trucks entering the urban areas
- The need to improve road signing related to the control of trucks on intern urban and urban highways
- The need to review the level is skills of existing truck drivers and the need for additional training.
- The need to control the numbers of working hours of truck drivers and their assistants (if any)
The purpose of the study is to assess and identify issues and problems with regards to truck traffic in the Eastern Province and to subsequently develop a comprehensive strategic plan with time scales and estimated costs for the short, medium and long term actions. Specific objectives include:
Review current trucks movement in the Eastern Province.
Identify all routes, links and interchanges where there are congestion.
Develop a method that identify major origin-destinations for the goods movements in the Province
Develop 10-20 year action plan with thirty years’ time horizon to address issues that helps and regulate the movements of trucks in the area
Services Provided
- Data Collection
- Interviews/Workshops With Truck / Freight Organizations In Both The Road And Rail Sectors
- Traffic Study
- Network Inventories
- Socio-Economic Assessment
- Analysis And Development Of Options
- Strategic Master Plan