RECLAIMING THE ROADS OF THE BALLAD

Year: 2022

Location: Amman, Jordan

Category: Urban Design

Role: Group Work

Project Description

The project aims to develop the downtown area “Quraysh Street, King Talal Street and Al Hashemi Street” through transit-oriented development (TOD) and strategies of sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP).

Site Assessment notes

Poor sustainable transportation planning.

Low engaging of the locals with the decision making. A questionnaire has been done in the Downtown of Amman and these are the issues the locals have highlighted in the area.

What is the problem?

How Amman is a frozen city in time where the buildings stay the same, the systems stay the same with just little changes. This may have given Amman’s Downtown the identity throughout the years but the world is developing in a rapid pace and the Downtown has to adapt to that change to meet the technological and sustainable standards in 2022.

The Ballad’s roadways have long been ruled by automobiles; it’s time for a change to give the people control of these roads once again. Transit oriented development is the solution for all these problems.

Methodology

Our plan is to offer the public a strong transportation network in the downtown that serves the city center individually and connects with the transportation terminals. Therefore, automobiles traffic will be reduced radically and the spaces for cars will be redesigned to enhance walkability and other modes of transportations like e-scoters, bicycles and public busses.

Action Plan

How to implement the transit oriented development plan in the downtown of Amman?

Adding a new articulated bus Network in the Downtown of Amman

Reducing the traffic in the Downtown

More Space for pedestrian network development

Relieving the congestions in the downtown

Redistributing of the mobility lines in Downtown of Amman

Connecting the Downtown with a strong transportation network

Enhancing accessibility with the government comprehensive transportation plan

Making the streets more pedestrian and other light automobiles friendly

Regulate the streets policy

Change the nature of some streets to be fully pedestrians

Create an internal transportation network for the Downtown

Performance Design after the implementation of the action plan:

Developing an identity of the Downtown

Our costumer arrives to the Downtown via any transportation method. He can use 1 of the 16 bus stops. The maximum waiting time for the bus is 4 min. The bus is equipped with a smart payment method (Magnetic card / Qr Code). He can pay using a 1 card that can be used in all the transportation network in Amman ( Big busses, articulated busses, Costars, service cars, etc). The card can be charged online or at the new Raghadan station. For tourists, they can by a transportation pass that allow them to access everything from tourists sties and transportations. In the end, the costumer can reach the BRT station or Old Raghadan Station where he can access different areas across Amman.

Street Section

The street sections were redesigned by adding a special lane for an articulated bus and a path for bicycles, the sidewalks were redesigned to satisfy current needs.

User Experience

Finding your way: The locals now have less options to choose from the provided transportations and have different mode of traveling other than walking like e-scooter, bicycles and internal articulated buses.

Reliability: People now have a clear schedule for the bus and its capacity and the expectancy rate for the service.

Articulated bus Network

An internal transport network has been developed that connects the Jordan Museum bus station and the old Raghadan bus station with articulated bus with rapid frequency, which connects public transport complexes, commercial centers, and tourist and heritage areas.

Transportation lines redestribution

A redestribution for the existing transit netwrok was needed to let transportation line communicate with each other. This reduced the number of the lines in the site area from 90 line to only 4 while keeping in mind the user expereince and service quality for the locals.

Travel distance was shortend by 33% for each transportation line which means 540 km on average. Gas emissions have been lowered by almost 84% too due to the articulated bus being an electrical bus

strand Organization

Year: 2022

Location: Kragujevac, Serbia