Using median rule in determining the establishment of service station between Baghdad and Basrah in Iraq

Abstract

This research points out that the second half of the twentieth century has characterized by the importance of service industry sponsored by governments and private organization. Service industry became the core point in achieving economic and social development plans. Based on such development, the specialists and researchers emphasized on the importance of transportation means among them the trains as services organized by service organizations. The subject of this research is concerned with the problem of providing better transportation services by train between Baghdad and AL-Basrah cities in Iraq. There is a need to establish additional station between the two cities to facilitate such service for the inhabitants in (4) cities located between the two cities. For this purpose , the median rule was implemented to find out the best location which serve larger number of inhabitants in the area .