Research Note Analysis of Influence of Urban Spatial organization on Inter-city Transportation System (Case Study: Rasht city, Iran)

Variables exist in the urban spatial organization، interact other variables of travelling modes of the citizens. Lack of planning process to analyze these variables increases the time، distance، costs and causes high use of private vehicle to access the functional locations of the city. Rasht is a broad city that its spread spatial organization has caused citizens to use other travelling modes than private cars. Thus appropriate distribution of the physical، social and economic elements into urban neighborhoods would be the objectives and requirements of an urban planning model. The main hypothesis of this research is finding a meaningful relationship between dispersion of the urban good shape variables and modes of traveling of the citizens to access to urban functions. The article aims to analyze the relationship between each of the good city variables and the local functions and its effects on the use of private cards. This research is an applied- development project conducted by a «survey» method. Statistical society of this study is the total citizens of Rasht city. The sample size was estimated to 382 persons by using the Morgan Table. Sampling method is cluster and in order to analyze data to determine significant relationships between variables the non-parametric، 2 variable Spearman has been used in the form two- dimensional tables in SPSS software. Research findings show that between the dispersion and lack of urban good shape variables and high levels use of private cars، there is a significant relationship. Also results indicate significant relationship between inappropriate distribution of commercial، recreational، educational and sports usages in the neighborhoods of Rasht، which shows a significant relationship، with frequency of inter- urban trips to access to urban functions and frequency of inter- urban trips to access to urban functions.