The Current Spatial Distribution of Fuel Stations in Duhok City Using GIS and Analyzing their Problems

Abstract

            The increasing of human and residential with the evolution system in the world cased to Increase human requirements, one ofthose requirements is a vehicle like cars and that vehicle need to fuel because they complement each other. Sometimes the fulfillment of some requirements may give negative results.

            This study focuses on how is the geographical distribution of gas stations in Duhok city and it’s reality with the laws system of urban in the northern IraqiKurdistan region government (IKRG) and its analysis by the geographic information system (GIS).For this study was collected some information, data about the Gas stations in Duhok city, global position system (GPS) points, obtaining the laws or standard of a geographical establishing station in the regional government, and working on the Digital Image of a city in 6m resolutions was captured in 2015. Besides that, the information and data wereprepared by Microsoft excel 2016 and analyzed by ArcGIS 10.4.1 and erdas Imagine 2016. After that was analyzed the standard of 20 m far from the streets, 30 m far from the residential area,and 50 m far from the services area.In this study, a word (system) was used instead of a (standard) word. Because all of those standards were related to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) and maybe those standardsof fuel stationswere different from other countries.At the end of analyzing more than 50 Gas stations showing some of those stations don’t right with the laws of the standard city and environment in government. On the other hand, continuous increase in the number of stations almost randomly or without the use of laws, many problems can arise for the environment and infrastructure of the city in the future.