Assessing the effects of spatial land use distribution in pathway network on travel pattern of citizens (Case Study: Seventh district of Qom City)

Every day, millions of urbanists have contact with the pedestrian, vehicle networks, and various types of transportation and use urban transportation to meet a range of occupational, educational, shopping, recreational, and other needs. Not all of these have the same pattern in every urban district, and they are subject to various factors and variables. A bunch of these factors is subject to spatial configuration elements, one of the most important of which is the configuration of land use in a pathway network, which has been investigated in this study. Through studies in this field, one can assess the possible consequences of land use deployment on citizens’ travel patterns and determine how they should be distributed when promoting a sustainable travel pattern. For this purpose, this study focused on District 7 of Qom City as the Central Business District (CBD). The research was conducted with a descriptive-analytic process in which information was collected using library and field studies. Pearson s correlation test and accordingly the multivariable regression analysis were implemented to analyze the data and test the hypotheses using computer software such as GIS and Spss Depth Map. The findings of the research indicated a significant relationship between the urban travel pattern and the land use pattern in the city and the study area. Moreover, the correlation between the integrity index and the degree of commercial concentration, the connectivity index with the degree of residential land use concentration, and the integrity index with land uses such as transportation and warehouse led to dominant travel patterns in each of these routes and zones. Therefore, the dominant pattern of travel is unbalanced according to the spatial structure of the region, and the sustainability rate of travel styles is very low. Observing the hierarchy of urban services, the land use distribution with respect to the functional radius and, on the other hand, the need to redistribute the land use because of the decentralization principle from the central part of the city are the main aspects of modifying and improving the current situation, which are emphasized in this article.