Green Transportation Corridor (Designing Green, Environmentally Friendly
Transportation Networks)
Waleed S. Alawsey1, Hiba A. Al-Dulaimi2, Wisam F. Hassan3
Abstract
Green corridors, as one of the emerging aspects of urban design, play a pivotal role in driving
sustainable transportation and shaping the visual and functional aspects of cities. This project begins
by defining sustainable transportation as systems that provide mobility with low environmental
impacts, while enhancing social, cultural, and economic aspects. Where sustainable transport does
not only include technology and infrastructure, but also strategic planning, policies, and community
engagement that support its development. The concept of streets was introduced as a crucial
element in this project, defined as the visual and physical character of street spaces, including their
arrangement, appearance, and interaction with human activity. Then the importance of green
corridors was explored in detail. As linear streets or networks of green spaces, they provide
pathways that not only facilitate human life movement but also ease non-mechanical human
transportation, contributing to the multifunctionality of urban landscapes. Green corridors serve as
the veins of the city, providing environmental benefits by preserving biodiversity and acting as a
sustainable alternative to transportation. Through the review of previous studies and proposals, the
benefits of green corridors in enhancing the city’s identity, increasing both social and economic
activity, reducing pollution, and encouraging active transportation methods such as cycling and
walking have been highlighted. And also the reference to how well-designed street views contribute
to the overall sustainability of transportation by improving accessibility, safety, and community wellbeing.
However, these studies have been characterized by their inability to provide clear and
sufficient knowledge regarding the design of environmentally friendly green corridors in the local
context of the city of Diwaniya. Based on this, the project’s problem was identified as the lack of
comprehensive and clear knowledge of the components for designing environmentally friendly green
corridors at the local level of the city of Diwaniya. The project aims to provide more comprehensive
knowledge for designing environmentally friendly green corridors that can be effectively adopted by
designers in general, and specifically serve the local experience of the city of Diwaniya. Achieving
this goal required the adoption of a set of indicators for designing environmentally friendly green
corridors, which were reached based on previously presented knowledge and studies. And
redesigning one of the vital streets in the city of Diwaniya according to these indicators in an attempt
to move towards sustainable transportation. Reaching the final conclusions Emphasizing the
importance of integrating green corridors into urban planning. He emphasizes the need for
multidimensional planning approaches that align street design aesthetics with the functions of
sustainable transport networks, suggesting that future research should focus on developing
quantitative and qualitative measures to assess the impact of green corridors on urban sustainability.