PASSENGER TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF LATAKIA (SYRIA), PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Abstract
The article analyzes the system of passenger transportation, as well as the road network of the coastal city of Latakia. To illustrate how the city has evolved over the past 50 years, information is provided on population growth and its geographical boundaries. The features of this city that affect the way of life of people living in it, moving between different points of the city located in this city are described. The characteristic of technological processes of passenger transport and information about the types of used rolling stock (buses, minibusses, taxis) is given. The problems associated with the road network, which directly affect the technology of passenger transportation. The article shows the shortcomings in the management of the rolling stock of urban public transport, which exist for many years. Based on the analysis of the problems of passenger transport, the authors present the real situation in the system of passenger transportation and their vision of solving the problem of eliminating the stagnation in the system of passenger transportation of the city of Latakia.
About the Authors
Alexander I. Roschin
MADI
Russian Federation
Ph. D., professor
Russian Federation
Ph. D., professor
Darin M. Usman
MADI
Syrian Arab Republic
postgraduate
Syrian Arab Republic
postgraduate
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