ABSTRACT
In recent years, however, the political conflict over the West Bank has become the major factor impacting on the modern development of transportation. During 30 years of Israeli occupation, large tracts of West Bank land were confiscated from Arab villages and private landowners for the establishment of Jewish settlements and, more recently, for the construction of an extensive system of bypass roads linking these settlements to each other and to Israel. Land use has thus been drastically altered in a relatively short period.
