Potential measurement of pedestrian traffic in Kashan city with emphasis on urban planning indicators

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According to Jane Jacobs, the main part of the concept of "street life" lies in its pedestrians. From his point of view, these are busy and vibrant walkways that give meaning to the city center by providing a social interactive environment.  The existence of communities to achieve sustainable transport goals is obvious because it improves displacement, reduces the negative environmental impacts, enhances the economy, and improves social sustainability by improving social interaction. Perhaps disassembly can be considered as the amount of capacity and ability to navigate properly in the built environment. The contribution of walking on community safety, access and social participation has emerged as a serious challenge to the design of the urban environment, as pedestrian access has steadily decreased in most cities over the last century. In Iran, population growth, accelerated urbanization and increased personal ownership of urban vehicles, especially in the central part of the cities and the old texture, have increased the density in the city center road network and the occurrence of traffic congestion in them, which are generally for the passage of this type and The volume of traffic was not designed and the lack of road networks and their mismatch with today's needs, as well as the deployment of adsorbent population and productive forces, dense neighborhoods and sometimes incompatibility of the basic problems of these areas, and causing interference between rides and pedestrians. The area is in the city of kashan. Kashan is considered one of the most important historical cities of Iran, which has many monuments and valuable monuments. The protection and protection of these historical monuments requires pollution and traffic congestion of the cabin to pay attention to the issue of pedestrians. Although the city of Kashan has some problems, such as low passageways, narrow pedestrian width, crowded traffic and urban traffic, disturbing street view, floor problems, and other issues. For this purpose, the preliminary research is the answer to the question of what is the priority of the planning indicators for pedestrians and, finally, the appropriate passageways for walking in the city of Kashan

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volume 9  issue 34

pages  42- 58

publication date 2018-12

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