An Analysis of Accessibility to Services in Rural Areas and Structural Modeling of Factors affecting it; Case Study: Central District of Tabriz County

Access, plays an important role in rural development as there is a meaningful relationship between rural development and access to infrastructure services. Villages that have less access to essential services, especially transport, faced with a lot of structural and socio-economic constraints, which are obstacles to sustainable rural development. The present study seeks to examine the accessibility and the factors affecting it. Accordingly, it is considered with descriptive-analytic research method. The statistical population of the study, consisted of villages in central District of Tabriz County (52 villages) that there needed data were gathered from Dehyars. After validity and reliability of the research, in order to evaluate accessibility, we used the Dematel technique and ANP, then to assess the role of different elements in accessibility of rural areas, we used SEM in Amos software. Initial results of Rural Accessibility Survey showed that Mayan Sefli village had the highest accessibility and the final result of the research is determining the role of factors in rural accessibility based on factors such as distance from city, service center and social status of village are more effective than other factors in accessibility.