At the recent Jordan Engineers Association Graduation Projects Competition-Traffic Prize category, GJU students Zaid Alrababah, Baha Bawaneh, and Zaid Qtaishat from the Mechanical and Maintenance Engineering Department within the School of Applied Technical Sciences (SATS) emerged victorious, claiming the first place prize on behalf of Greater Amman.
Municipality for the project "Designing, Modelling, and Simulating a Proposed Sustainable Engineering Solution to the University of Jordan Hospital Access Problem”. The project idea was originated from and was supervised by Dr. Ahmad Almuhtady aimed to investigates the implementation of a new mobility solution aimed at enhancing traffic management for the highly demanded hospital in Amman (hundreds of thousands of patients and visitors yearly) to the counter ever-increasing challenges posed by traffic congestion and inefficient transportation systems.
The project provided a comprehensive analysis of the impact of a proposed new terminal (comprised of escalators and moving walkways) on traffic management, considering its effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability. The evaluation process has been done using two measures of effectiveness (MOE), level of service (LOS) for vehicles dynamics and metabolic equivalent task (MET) for physical exertion assessment, by which, the new terminal has yield time savings and high comfort level comparing to the current layout under using PTV Vissim as a traffic simulation tool.
Moreover, thermal analysis was carried out using a combination of simulation programs to ensure the sustainability of the terminal structure, including Ecotect and Opaque. The optimized combination of wall, roof, and window materials and its transmittance resulted in 40% savings in the annual total heating and cooling loads compared to the default.
Video link for part of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-VM3fLhbs