Defining Psychological Factors of Cycling in Tehran City

Studying active transportation (walking or cycling) is widespread in American and European research. Studies which include latent variables (LV) are growing to identify the exact results of determining strategies increase utility (AT). LVs help us conduct more accurate defined as psychological factors such feeling safe while you ride at night, thus they not subjective hard understand, but very important consider order using AT modes. In present paper, most previous studies on cycling were reviewed. Different variables, including LVs, included maximize bicycle introduced have better sight for future researchers deal with modeling mode choice. This study applied class analysis a sample 345 survey respondents Tehran, capital city Iran, exploring affecting behavior confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation (SEM) was developed. Results show importance having ‘will’ bicycle, especially difficult situations, view cultural barriers that affect women cyclists.