Express highways for Riyadh City
Introduction
In half a century turned city of Riyadh from a small town surrounded by fences to the modern city. The area scope buildings (1782) square kilometers or more than the area of many nations, with an area three times the size of Singapore
Background
Riyadh experiencing rapid population growth and urban expansion considerably, as the number of the city's population of four million people, so the City of Riyadh, one of the fastest cities in the world developed and sophisticated. This has resulted in population growth and urbanization, and were accompanied by a boom in commercial and industrial activities to the increased need for mobility between different parts of the city, which has led to overcrowding in some streets and the city as mobility and the difficulty of movement between areas east of the city and the center of the city
As the diagnostic and analytical studies conducted by the Higher Authority for the development of the city of Riyadh that more than 93% of daily trips carried out by private vehicle while public transport buses only 2% of the total trips generated in the city. As it became clear that the number of trips generated in the city of Riyadh, currently about five million trips per day. Also expected during the 10 years from now the number of trips to be more than eight million trips per day 3 (Dr. Jalal Nfach, 1421 e).
Goals:
1-develop the movement of vehicles inside the city of Riyadh without prejudice to the special properties
2-To reduce traffics and jams on highways, and
3- Reduction traffic accidents on the highways due to regular stop
4-increasing highways to accommodate additional number of vehicles in the future
The idea
to establish bridges in the middle of highways on the island between the road and there well be one entrance and one exit along the highway, for example that the bridge along the route of King Fahd from north to south, opposite the entrance and by King Abdullah and the director at the center of the city and there is no other entrances or exits and the bridge consists of four tracks from north to south and the other two tracks from south to north. Note that this thought possible to apply to the northern highways, eastern highways, western highways and southern highways.
Features Study:
1- Simplicity and speed of movement from north to south and east to west readily and easily
2-Aavoid traffic resulting from the slow movement
3 To avoid jams resulting from enter and excite highways
4-The possibility of building bridges without compromising the properties
5-Feasibility of the project by the private investor
