Strategies to make pedestrians passages using SWOT and QSPM in Sareyn

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Asghar  Pashazadeh ¹ (دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی شهری، دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی، اردبیل، ایران)
Mohamadhasan  yazdani ² (Assistant Professor, Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili)
Fatemeh  Zadvali ³ (PH.D.student of urban planning & Geography, University of Tabriz)

Received: 2017-08-23 Accepted : 2018-02-07 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: strategy, SWOT model, making pedestrians, Sareyn, QPSM model,

Abstract :

Today planning and designing pedestrians could increase sustainable development and social interactions. So to do this, it is required to recognize challenges and potentials of making pedestrians and to recommend some solutions to deal with them. What is needed is to recognize strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of making pedestrian in this city. The research is applied in terms object and in terms of nature is descriptive- analytical. In order to collect data, documentary and field studies were utilized. Statistic population of the research is involved the down town’ experts and guilds which were chosen intentional. So, in the field studies strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of Sareyn were recognized in terms of indicators. Given to the factors, some strategies were proposed by SWOT. Then by experts and guilds remarks one of the primary strategies were chosen and by QPSM, final strategy were chosen through the primary one. By the field studies, as internal factors, 8 weaknesses, 8 strengths, and as external factors 14 opportunities and 5 threats were recognized. Given to them, 4 offensive strategies, 4 conservative strategies, 2 competitive and 2 defensive strategies were proposed by SWOT. Finally conservative strategies were chosen and the results of QPSM showed that strategy of “organizing streets and parkings” with 5.11 and strategy of “organizing green space and open space of the passage” with 2.5 are highest and lowest strategies.

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