Professor Dr. Areej Khairi Al-Rawi, a faculty member at the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad, participated in the First Scientific Forum on Reducing Traffic Accidents, held at the Babylon Hotel in Baghdad. The forum was attended by Interior Minister Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, his deputy for police affairs, Lieutenant General Hadi Arzij, the Director General of Traffic, Lieutenant General Dr. Uday Samir, traffic directors from all governorates, and a group of academics from the University of Baghdad.

Dr. Al-Rawi presented her research paper, entitled “The Importance of Road Hierarchy in Achieving Traffic Safety,” at the meeting. She highlighted the problem of the unplanned construction of several private colleges, which has led to significant traffic congestion and obstructed traffic flow during peak hours. This, coupled with the sheer number of vehicles, has resulted in an increase in traffic accidents due to pedestrians not using designated overpasses or pedestrian crossings. She emphasized that the Interior Minister praised the importance of this scientific and practical approach and stressed to the traffic directors in the governorates the necessity of holding an annual forum on this topic in Baghdad and all governorate directorates.

The meeting concluded with a set of recommendations, including preparing a strategy to reduce traffic accidents, to be presented by the conference participants, and paying attention to the hierarchy of roads to specifications that suit new uses, after confirming the locations of newly established colleges within a mechanism that includes planning stages, with the provision of a database and its analysis by adopting smart systems and artificial intelligence, and emphasizing the adoption of smart systems in renewing vehicle registrations, issuing driver’s licenses and driving tests, with the adoption of new mechanisms to manage the movement of cyclists.

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