Evaluating the contribution of individual and spatial factors in the method of intra-city travel in the Case study of Rasht city

Different ways of travelling are the basis of the economic and social activities of every city due to the costs of transportation and access, and the flow of people's travel in the city to access activities and services turns it into a living organism. The current research aims to investigate the internal relationships affecting individual and spatial factors on the way of intra-city travel in Rasht city. The present research method is considered to be applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-survey data collection. The current research aims to investigate the internal relationships affecting individual and spatial factors on the way of intra-city travel in Rasht city. The statistical population of this research consists of 21 urban planning and urban transportation experts. The data collection tool is in the form of a questionnaire with 31 factors documented and presented from the background table of the research. The subjects of the research are coded and in the next step, internal relationships of the effective factors are identified and determined through the Dimel technique, finally, by forming a group decision matrix, a better understanding of the internal effective factors is created. Also, the results obtained from the Dimtel technique showed that the accessibility according to travel costs (1.695), the distance between stations (1.549), the accessibility according to the distance from the city centre (0.628), the accessibility according to traffic (0.254), willingness to use public transportation (0.166), the distance between home and important city service-commercial centres (0.123) were the most influential indicators in evaluating the ways of intra-city travel in Rasht city.