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Abstract
The large number of staff and students at Kirkuk University and Kirkuk Technical Engineering College turn the University to the most crowded place in the City, causing traffic jams on nearby roadways. Remedies to reduce travel time to and from these focal points to the rest of the city must be found. The purpose of this study is to conduct network analysis of the roads in the study region (Kirkuk city), to determine the optimum routes to reach Kirkuk University and Kirkuk Technical College.The findings of the study of 6 designated routes from 6 sectors of the city of Kirkuk to reach Kirkuk University and Kirkuk Technical Engineering College indicate that travel time vary depending on the distance between each sector and the destination point. Scenario 6 has the shortest travel time of 4.97 minutes, cutting a distance of 5.168 km, Scenario 2, instead, has the longest travel time with 13.97 minutes for a distance of 12.892 km. Scenarios 1 and 3 have the same travel time of 13.61 minutes despite having different distances of 13.053 km and 10.559 km, respectively. The analysis of the remaining two scenarios show that scenario 4, has a travel time of 8.73 minutes with a distance of 8.179 km, while scenario 5 has a travel time of 9.02 minutes with a distance of 8.134 km.