Land Transport and its Role in Achieving Economic Development in Baqubah City for the Year 2023

Abstract

This study comes within the general trend of employing geographical expertise to serve the community by raising complex problems that require revealing the mutual economic relationships between transportation methods and development. The main goal of transportation in general and its various types is to provide or bring services closer to urban centers. This means that any project for the transportation sector aims to serve the main and important urban centers with their diverse economic activities. According to this concept, transportation is one of the most important economic activities that effectively and directly affect the national economy. Transportation works to increase and maximize production in terms of quantity and quality, and it also provides a means for transporting goods and labor to places where they are most beneficial. It is noted that there are strong links between the economic level and the civilizational progress of any society with what it possesses of transportation methods of various types. Despite the existence of some studies that dealt with transportation methods in Baqubah City, they did not examine in detail at the level of Baqubah City through the role of transportation methods and their relationship to development Economic.