TITLE:
Evaluation of Human-Oriented Transport in City Hall Transportation Projects Approach to Sustainable Case Study of the Kerman City Hall
AUTHORS:
Sedigheh Meimandi Parizi, Abdolreza Kazeminiya
KEYWORDS:
Sustainable Transport, Human-Oriented Transportation, Non-Motorized Transport, The Funding of City Hall Programs
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.3 No.3,
September
22,
2015
ABSTRACT: In Iran, the implementation of public transport and non-motorized transport infrastructure warrants
the need to allocate adequate funding from the state and city hall. In this regard, in city hall
development plans (the format approved by the Ministry of Interior), urban transportation plan
has been one of the ten chapters. The purpose of this paper is to survey the content and documents
related to the allocation of funds to the traffic sector in the former development program of
Kerman city hall and by the way, assess the role of human-oriented transportation among the
plans and programs of Kerman city hall. Therefore, the amount of funds allocated to the transport
sector in Kerman city hall development plans and programs has been investigated for a period of
six years (2009-2014). Comparative analysis method is used for surveying the position and the
importance of sustainable transport among planners and urban management. Kerman is the historical
city and the most important city in the South East of Iran. Due to uncontrolled population
growth in recent decades, a large number of cars added to its pathways, so it is required to have a
plan of sustainable transportation programs to be evaluated traffic. Results of the analysis indicate
that the budget allocated to the development of the vehicle-oriented transportation is much
more than human-oriented transportation and in fact, human-oriented systems of transport such
as walking and cycling are considered less than the others. Also in the old fabric of Kerman city
that has formed on the basis of the human-oriented transportation, the lowest level of funding is
intended to regulate transportation. With this description, it is clear that achieving sustainable
development and human-oriented in urban transport sector, it fundamentally needs paradigm
shift in urban transport development and revision in the attitudes of managers and planners, and
in the meantime it is necessary to correct the programming cycle of urban development along with
review of the allocating funds mechanism and to define projects in various sectors. Urban and transport planners can conduct municipalities projects with costing not too much and hereto provide
non-motorized styles in the field of urban transport networks. If only allocated apart of the
overall funding for roads, highways and city streets to the development of public transport and
non-motorized transportation options, the impact would be very high.