Rasoul Gorbani; Ahmad Asadi
Volume 19, Issue 51 , April 2015, , Pages 267-288
Abstract
Nowadays, the usage of bicycle is one of the main tools for gaining desirable cities. The increase of population in the third world cities and using of fuel in these countries has been intensified in last decades. For this, the usage of bicycle has been considered in transportation affairs. One of the ...
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Nowadays, the usage of bicycle is one of the main tools for gaining desirable cities. The increase of population in the third world cities and using of fuel in these countries has been intensified in last decades. For this, the usage of bicycle has been considered in transportation affairs. One of the main policies in attaining sustainable development in cities is the expansion of bicycle use. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of unwillingness to bicycle use in Zanjan city by using of questionnaires and library approaches. The results of this study have been analyzed by SPSS and Excel software. The main findings of this study indicate that the use of bicycle is very low in Zanjan city and only 8% of people use the bicycle in urban activities. The unwillingness to use the bicycle in urban activities can be resulted from advertising constraints, constraints of bicycle benefits, shortage of security for bicycle runs in city network and other cases such as unwillingness of managers to use bicycle in travels.
seyedeh khadijeh Rezatabe; Rahim Heydari Chiane
Volume 18, Issue 47 , April 2014, , Pages 71-108
Abstract
Transportation is one of the essential sectors of the cities and its appropriate planning can create the initial yardsticks for the presence and the interpretation of mutual spatial relations of the cities. The weaknesses of the management and the substantial plans have all caused challenges in the utilization ...
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Transportation is one of the essential sectors of the cities and its appropriate planning can create the initial yardsticks for the presence and the interpretation of mutual spatial relations of the cities. The weaknesses of the management and the substantial plans have all caused challenges in the utilization of the existing potentials of the urban transportation systems. The data required for this research were provided from library sources and the interview of one-third of the transportation sector administrators through the CDS methodology and in a simple random sampling procedure for Rasht city. In order to confirm the validity of the questionnaires we applied Alpha Chronbach method and for the compilation of the strategies we applied SWOT and SPACE techniques. Finally we used ANP and QSPM methods for prioritization of the strategies. Results obtained from the application of SWOT method gave rise to points 2.23 and 2.87. Therefore, the transportation situation in Rasht city has located in defensive conditions and in planning the defensive approach should be selected. Also the results of evaluation of SPACE technique were similar to the results of SWOT. The key issues of such planning was prioritized based on the promotion of organizational and managerial plans, the provision of financial budget, the employment of specialized human power, the enhancement of engineering and cooperative infrastructures, and the legal and cultural indicators. Thereafter, based on the analysis and evaluation of the criteria and sub-criteria under environmental and structural frameworks, we proposed six choices among which the priorities go to the effective strategies respectively, including the promotion of managerial and organizational plans (30.95%), financial budgeting (22.32%), the employment of multi-specialized human force (14.94%), the enhancement of engineering and cooperative infrastructures (12.7%), the enhancement of cultural levels (10.01%), and legal enhancement (8.97%).
