الاختناقات المرورية وأثرها على ارتفاع معدلات التلوث في مدينة بغداد

Abstract

The Transport and Traffic problem one of the most important problems of the major cities, including the city of Baghdad, as the capital and center politically and economically, however, the concentration of various commercial, industrial, administrative and recreational activities, and the high number of the population which, is the way of the basic elements in the transport and traffic operation and affect his determination and capacity in streamlined and functioning of vehicles and this in turn affects the traffic density, so the streets and roads size and stopped many of them from work and shut down a lot of bridges and tunnels as a kind of security measures, causing the creation of large momentum traffic in the streets available to the population, as well as the multiplicity of checkpoints scattered in different ways and the streets, accompanied by the steadily increasing numbers of cars, particularly after 2003, which led to the occurrence and growing traffic congestion, which contributed to raise pollution levels in the city.