A Geographic Study on Road Transportation Network of Meikitla District

The development of transportation in a region is closely related to the geographic factors of that region. The study area, Meiktila District has an area of 2,235.246 square miles. The main aim of this paper is to examine the road transportation network of Meiktila District by comparing two periods: 1988 and 2017. In order to analyse the motor road network of study area, four towns (Meiktila, Mahlaing, Wundwin and Thazi) of respective townships and some villages and junction points connecting each others are defined as vertices (nodes). The roads connecting those vertices are edges (links). The planar graph is mainly used to reveal the structural pattern of road network. The topological indices for connectivity are examined with graph theory and, accessibility matrix and density of network are calculated in this research. As a result, Meiktila Township was highest in road density while Wundwin Township was the lowest road density in two periods. The size, shape, junction point and centrality determine the network density of the study area