The Application Of Gis And Remote Sensing For Road And Transportation Planning And Management In Case Of Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

Contents CHAPTER ONE1 1.INTRODUCTION1 1.1Background of study1 1.2 Objectives3 1.2.1 General objective3 1.2.2 Specific objectives3 1.3 Research question3 1.3 Statement problem3 1.4 Significance of the study4 1.5 Scope of the study5 2. LITERATURE REVIEW6 2.1 Information System for Transportation6 2.2 Role of GIS for transportation6 2.3 GIS in Road and Transport Infrastructure8 2.4 GIS in roadnetworkplanning activity8 3 MATERIALS AND METHODS9 3.1 Descriptionofthestudyarea9 3.1.1 Geographiclocation9 3.1.2Population10 3.1.3 Climate10 3.1.4 Land use10 3.1.5 Vegetation11 3.1.6 Socio-economic characteristics11 3.1.7 Soil and geology11 3.3. Materials and software12 3.3.1 Software12 3.3.2 Materials12 3.4 Types and sources of data13 3.5 Method of data collection13 3.6 Method of data analysis13 4.Result and Discussion15 4.1MAPPING ROAD NETWORK15 4.1.1 Shortest route analysis17 4.2 Designing and Building Geo- database of road infrastructures19 4.3 GIS role in transportation planning and management21 5.Conclusion21 6. Recommendations22 7. References23