The land transport efficiency in Wasit Governorate: Urban and rural settlements

University of Baghdad/College of Education ibn Rushd for Human Sciences, Department of Geography, Baghdad, Iraq

^* Corresponding author: sarah.bilal@ircoedu.uobaghdad.edu.iq

Abstract

The study of human factors and the extent of their impact on the construction of land transport roads is of great importance because they are variable factors, which are on the contrary natural factors, and the impact of human factors on road construction operations is evident through the study of population distribution and size, and economic activities (agricultural, industrial, tourism). And its direct mutual relationship with the construction and extension of land transport routes and the development of each of them, and then directing them to serve urban and rural human settlements, which leads to their development and improvement of their economic, living and social conditions on the one hand, and contributes to the emergence of new centers for human settlement on the other hand.