Analysis of Sustainable Travel Pattern in Downtown Neighborhoods by Using a Combination of Space Syntax an‎d GIS (Case Study: Districts 1 and 7 Qom City)

Transportation, as a core component supporting the interactions and the development of socioeconomic systems, has also been the object of much consideration about to what extent it is sustainable. Automobile dependence is a situation that is often related to an unsustainable urban environment. However, such an observation is at odd with the mobility choice and preferences of the global population where the automobile is rapidly adopted when income levels reach a certain threshold. Other transport alternatives commonly do not measure up to the convenience of the automobile. Automobile dependency is thus the outcome of market forces expressed as consumer preferences and national manufacturing policies. Private and flexible forms of transportation, such as the automobile, are thus fundamental to urban mobility and should not be discarded as options for the sake of ideological perspectives about what should sustainability implies.The purpose of present research is to analyze the status of sustainable urban transport in areas located in the central Districts 1 and 7 Qom city in Iran are selected as the sample and the current transport system of this area of cities has been studied. The research method is descriptive-analytical and is carried out with an emphasis on the relationship between the urban form and the patterns of travel using GIS and statistical analysis together. The results of statistical surveys show that commercial land use has a greater impact on the pattern of personal vehicle-travel compared to the public transport. Regarding the density in height, it was found that by increasing the density, people tend to walk more and desire to use personal vehicle decreases. It can be said about the communication network that the high proportion of spaces related to the network is increasing with the desire of individuals to drive with personal cars. For this reason, we tried to further assess this communication comprehensively and in an integrated manner through space syntax data. Finally, the conceptual and operational model for achieving the research objectives has been described and the research achievements are clearly provided in the assessment of the hypotheses and the answers to the questions.