TRANSPORT PLANNING: PLANNING DIMENSIONS OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN IRAQ FOR THE PERIOD (1979-2020)
Traffic accidents have negative repercussions on urban societies, including human, economic, social, and environmental and others. Where a high proportion of the population is killed, injured and disabled as a result of the occurrence of such accidents on the roads in the world. In Iraq, the analytical indicators of the official data for the period (1979-2020) indicate that there is a problem of the increase risk indicators for the dead and injured as a result of these accidents on the roads, as the research aims to reach scientific evidence in calculating risk rates, Assuming that there is an increase in risk indicators and for the purpose Reaching scientific standards in testing traffic accidents. The research adopted statistical methods, which is better in analyzing the phenomenon under study. In addition to the specialized engineering methods adopted in transportation planning studies, through which it became evident the continuous and frightening increase in the extent of the seriousness of these accidents, which indicates the inevitability of developing strategic studies that work to reduce these accidents.
Keywords: Transport Planning, Planning Dimensions, Traffic Accidents.