Abstract Freight transportation is of high importance and used to determine the region’s economy. Typically, effective freight systems are related decreasing costs moving goods from logistics facilities. The city Baghdad suffers many problems with land transport system, especially goods, among important things reduce current burden on network find most suitable sites for establishment warehouse...

Sustainable urban road planning should endeavor to meet current and future traffic-related demands achieve financial, environmental, social benefits, which is a complex interdisciplinary issue that needs consider various factors data. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) can provide reasonable solutions, some existing studies integrated MCDM with geographic information system (GIS) technology....

purpose: suitable site selections to provide the services needed by the tourists, is one of the most important step for tourism planning in the form of tourism villages based on the identification and analysis of the various criteria and indicators. mahabad dam lake as one of the beautiful tourist attractions in western azerbaijan province, attracts many tourists each year especially during the...

Alternative assessments have evolved from an epistemological change in education. They see assessment and instruction as two sides on the same coin which go hand in hand. The traditional roles of both teachers and learners are, consequently, modified which is essential for better language development. In this line, the present study aimed at comparing the effects of portfolio and journal writin...

Few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. This study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. To this end, 60...

A geographical information system (GIS) is proposed as a suitable tool for mapping the spatial distribution of forest ® re danger. Using a region severely a ected by forest ® res in Central Spain as the study area, topography, meteorological data, fuel models andhuman-caused riskweremappedand incorporated within a GIS. Three danger maps were generated: probability of ignition, fuel hazard and h...

Building a new GIS project is a major investment. Choosing the right GIS software package is critical to the success and failure of such investment. Because of the complexity of the problem a number of decision making tools must be deployed to arrive at the proper solution. In this study a new decision making approach for solving GIS software selection problem was proposed by integrating Expert...