Land Use and Transportation Laws’ efficiency with regard to Air Pollution in Tehran Metropolitan Area

Authors

  • Mitra Habibi Department of Architecture and Urban planning, Art University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Vahid moshfeghi Department of Architecture and Urban planning, Farabi international campusArt University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:

Air pollution is the major concern and challenge of Tehran urban areas’ management. Various rules, regulation, and laws had been codifiesd on this matter. In present research, the enforcement of laws and regulation concerning air pollution in the field of land-use and transportation is being addressed. The purpose of this article is to suggest an applicable (applied) framework embracing a descriptive-qualitative method. The following data had been extracted through documentary, libraries studies, and semi-structured interviews. Eventually, the role of each actor would be analyzed in Tehran urban area’s air pollution using the actuator network theory. The results show that the Department of environment, which is responsible for matters related to safeguarding the environment, has no main role in implementing the air pollution regulations as the main body responsible for the air’ quality control, and It has no topological connection with other organs, as well. The study of the feasibility of the reviewed laws and regulations illustrated that among 79 extracted substances, only 17.8% of those were fully completed. Moreover, 60% of laws have a single trustee and on the other hand, the rest of 40% is defined as a joint action between the systems. The 8 main actors have been recognized among the 20 actors who are the law’ trustee. These actors are responsible for doing 87 percent of all studied regulations.

Upgrade to premium to download articles

Sign up to access the full text

Already have an account?login

similar resources

The effect of urban sprawl in emerging of transportation flows and urban air pollution in Tehran metropolitan region

One of the Challenging problems of Tehran metropolitan region is Air pollution. Suburban expansion in the form of sprawl patterns have created the travels and transportations, due to the dependence on personal vehicles contributes more than 85 percent of creators of air pollution. The article studied the role of transportation in emergence of urban air pollution in Tehran metropolitan region, h...

full text

Using remote sensing data and GIS to evaluate air pollution and their relationship with land cover and land use in Baghdad City

The research used the satellite image (Landsat 7 ETM ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (TIR6) and geographic information system (GIS) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (LC) and land use (LU) of Baghdad city. Concentration of total suspended particles (TSP), lead (Pb), carbon oxides (CO, CO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...

full text

Land Use in Suburbia: Perungalathur Village of Chennai Metropolitan Area

Land use of a region is a function of use of land, community, attitude of people in their daily walks of life, occupation of the region and finally location, rate and quantum of interaction irrespective of distance with the nodal point at the region. The functionality of the region differs from place to place and remains a key factor in Suburbia. Land use is obviously constrained by environment...

full text

Correlation of air pollutants with land use and traffic measures in Tehran, Iran: A preliminary statistical analysis for land use regression modeling

Land use regression (LUR) models have been globally used to estimate long-term air pollution exposures. The present study aimed to analyze the association of different land use types and traffic measures with air pollutants in Tehran, Iran, as part of the future development of LUR models. Data of the particulate matter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were extracted from...

full text

locating residential land use in urban transportation planning by the application of gis and mathematical emission modeling of air pollution

increasing urban network has both positive (accessibility) and negative (air pollution) impacts. in this research air quality is chosen as key elements with respect to their critical roles in quality of life and urban health. the overall objective of this study is to develop a mathematical model to plan appropriate locations for residential land uses and urban transportation network development...

full text

Estimation of exposure to fine particulate air pollution using GIS-based modeling approach in an urban area in Tehran

In many industrialized areas, the highest concentration of particulate matter, as a major concern on public health, is being felt worldwide problem. Since the air pollution assessment and its evaluation with considering spatial dispersion analysis because of various factors are complex, in this paper, GIS-based modeling approach was utilized to zoning PM2.5 dispersion over Tehran, du...

full text

My Resources

Save resource for easier access later

Save to my library Already added to my library

{@ msg_add @}


Journal title

volume 9  issue 1

pages  51- 60

publication date 2020-03-01

By following a journal you will be notified via email when a new issue of this journal is published.

Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com

copyright © 2015-2023