Evaluation of criteria for service and tourism centers and providing optimal pattern (City of Damghan)

From the beginning of creation, human has considered to the move and travel. Getting food, water, security were basic human motivations for mobility and travel, but after the provision of basic human needs, thoughts of traveling for fun, enjoyment and discovering new places have begun. At the present time factors such as population growth, increasing urbanization and the problems of urban life, growth and development of communications and technology and transportation, as well as rising incomes and increased leisure time, all have provided the context to travel and tourism for the people. Transportation system has been one of the most basic economic infrastructures and in other words it is a connecting main factor of different economic parts. The power of transfer of various economic factors with maximum efficiency and effectiveness is an excellent goal which is hidden at the heart of such system and expresses its importance. Providing welfare services on intercity roads in the form of integrated services, welfare complex in the city of Damghan, is one of the needs that can be investigated in terms of different physical, economic, social, environmental aspects. In this regard, it has been a few years now that master plan for locating service and tourism centers in Iran and studied province has been adopted based on which nearly 500 places have been considered for the establishment of these complexes. Such complexes are constructed to provide required services to passengers, drivers and vehicles on the sidelines of road. In this way, the purpose of such complex in the city of Damghan, is a place built at the edge of the road to provide the services required by passersby. In this thesis, we look at the reasons and philosophy of the need for caravansary which was the urgent need of caravans and their people to be supported during their trip and we consider their role in transportation in their own time. The aim of this review is to achieve results such as sustainable regional development and growth and regional balance, by organizing integrated service complexes in the city of Damghan.