A study of variance of medical applications and its impact of urban traffic using AHP model (case- study: kermanshah downtown)

Today the rapid growth and development of cities has caused remarkable evolutions in the quality of its application, which in turn have proposed new problems and needs in the field of urban planning. Kermanshah as one of the large metropolises is not excluded from this condition considering the unplanning development in recent years and excessive concentration and congestion of different usages specially in health and care services have encountered with some problems including transportation systems and lack of parking lot; and regarding mutual connection between special construction and available transportation systems as connective means of usages in city as determiners of traffic behaviour and urban traffic extent should be paid into attention. This study is done with the purpose of identifying the consequences of the improper distribution of usages (medical services) on urban traffic and its quality in the downtown of Kermanshah. The kind of research is developing – applicative and its study method is analytic descriptive and survey. The procedure of data collection has been documentary and questionnaire. This study concludes that localization of health and care usages in Kermanshah city have not been based on the regulations and principles of urbanization and planning - and have not such proper distribution that high concentration of these usages in an area of downtown causes interruption of them in. have had their performance in this region and improper accessibility of the most large domain of other urban regions to these usages. This concentration have had the most effective impact on leading daily trips to this part of city. Therefore, most of the traffic problems of central part of the city stems from this displacement.