Measuring the Effect of Integrated Urban Management on the Development of Transportation and Traffic in Ahvaz Metropolis

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1 Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran

3 M.A. Student of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Shahid Chamran, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

Integrated urban management is one of the sustainable and environmentally friendly transportation development strategies. This approach helps to respond to the ever-increasing transportation needs of cities in a safer, more cost-effective, more reliable, and sustainable manner and to increase the role of these settlements in the implementation of policies and the realization of sustainable development goals at different global, national, and local levels. Therefore, today, achieving an integrated public transportation system is one of the most important strategies and goals of city management, and coordination between different public transportation lines is necessary. Integration can be defined as the coordination between the components of the transportation system and existing sub-systems. Therefore, intra-system integration deals with the coordination of the transportation system with other systems as well. The aim of the current research is to measure the effect of integrated urban management on the development of transportation and traffic in the Ahvaz metropolis. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in nature with a survey approach. Two library and field methods (questionnaires) were used to collect information. In data and information analysis, the statistical techniques of variance-based structural equation modeling and covariance-based structural equation modeling were used. The findings show that the overall evaluation indices of the structural equation model indicate that the data support the theoretical model of this research. In other words, the fit of the data to the model is established and the fit indices indicate the desirability of the structural equation model. Moreover, the strengthening of the integrated management of urban transport leads to the increase or strengthening of the development of transport and traffic, and its weakening will slow down the development of urban transport and traffic in the Ahvaz metropolis.

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Urban Structure and Function Studies
Volume 11, Issue 39
2024
Pages 133-155

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  • Receive Date: 09 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 23 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 16 March 2024

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