Middle East Road Design, Parking and Traffic Management Congress

Amman a city like many other cities in the region is developing at a much faster pace than the most optimist planners would hope. The city grow from a population 10.000 in 1951 to 1.5 million in 1980 to around 3.000.000 this year "un-official estimate...

Amman a city like many other cities in the region is developing at a much faster pace than the most optimist planners would hope. The city grow from a population 10.000 in 1951 to 1.5 million in 1980 to around 3.000.000 this year "un-official estimates with Iraqi refugees counting around 750.000".



Among the various infrastructures severely affected by this growth is the roads and traffic system. More and more vehicles with not enough roads "in size and numbers" or parking areas to support them, this resulted in massive jams in many areas of the city, more and more street parking that resembled high cholesterol in the city veins "streets" thus limiting the flow of blood "vehicles".



Traffic jams of this sort will adversely reflect on health "dust and CO2 emissions", environment "solid metals particles in the air and noise pollution" this is in addition to its negative economic impact in terms of fuel waste and imported vehicle parts deteriorating. Traffic jams also put pressure on human's productivity and emotional balance.

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