Performance evaluation of Addis Ababa City Road Network

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 3.3, Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa Institute of Technology), language: English, abstract: The specific objective of this study was to determine evaluation of road network performance using indicators such as road availability, road performance, traffic load, road serviceability, connectivity and safety for sub cities/networks in Addis Ababa and to make recommendations for policy makers to improve performance of road networks based on the outcome of the study.

These objectives were addressed by detail review of literatures about the subject matter and also by collecting relevant data which used for computation of the performance evaluation indicators in the results and discussion part. The trend change for some years for this performance indicator for the city is also assessed. In conclusion it is mentioned that currently the construction of new roads and maintaining the existing ones is increasing throughout years us we observe from the result but it needs more effort and successive evaluation of the road network performance to gain a good road network in the city.