Towards Sustainable Urban Planning Through Transit-Oriented Development (A Case Study: Tehran)

Sustainable development is regarded as a pivotal factor for smart urban planning. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a well-known land use transportation integration (LUTI) planning method, which can fulfill sustainable development objectives. In this study, a new spatial index is developed to me...

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Published in:ISPRS international journal of geo-information 2017-12, Vol.6 (12), p.402
Main Authors: Motieyan, Hamid, Mesgari, Mohammad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytic hierarchy process
Case studies
fuzzy-AHP
Indicators
Land use
Land use management
Methods
Model accuracy
Modelling
Neighborhoods
Public transportation
Sensitivity analysis
Spatial analysis
Sustainability
Sustainable development
sustainable urban planning
TOD
Transit-oriented development
transportation
Transportation planning
Urban planning
Urban transportation
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Summary:Sustainable development is regarded as a pivotal factor for smart urban planning. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a well-known land use transportation integration (LUTI) planning method, which can fulfill sustainable development objectives. In this study, a new spatial index is developed to measure TOD levels in neighborhoods of Tehran, the capital of Iran. To develop the TOD index, several criteria and indicators are first computed using spatial analyses, before being aggregated using a fuzzy-analytic hierarchy process (fuzzy-AHP). The fuzzy-AHP method generates three types of factor maps: that are optimistic, pessimistic, and moderate. This process evaluates the sensitivity of the TOD index by determining the indicators’ weights from various views, or perspectives. The results of this sensitivity analysis show the robustness of results from various views. Furthermore, in order to assess the efficiency of the proposed method, the moderate TOD-level map is compared with both the level of public transit services and trip attraction in neighborhoods. This comparison shows that the TOD map has an accuracy of 77 percent in urban modeling, which verifies the efficiency of the proposed method for measuring TOD.
ISSN:2220-9964
2220-9964
DOI:10.3390/ijgi6120402