Traffic Statistics on the Roads of Gaza, Palestine 2002-2017

Developing countries suffer from a dearth of traffic statistics. Gaza city, Palestine suffers from acute shortage of traffic and transportation statistics. In Gaza, traffic statistics are currently limited and are only performed at locations where a problem exists and funding is available to solve this problem. The current methods used to collect traffic data in Gaza do not provide a good and valuable coverage of the required traffic information for decision making and planning. This work provides a guide for the location of counting stations on the roads and intersections of Gaza Strip. It also suggests the best periods for traffic counts and data collection as well as the methods of publication. In order to provide a working example of how to use the suggested guide, it was applied on two case studies. The final part of this work provides information based on scarcely available continuous local traffic counts. The main objective is to generate a reference that provides hourly and daily traffic expansion factors. It also provides other useful traffic factors such as Peak Hour Factor, average peak-to-daily ratio (p/d) and the directional traffic split (D).