A comparative study of the mixed land use role on travel generation in urban neighborhoods (case studies: Chahno and Karmandan neighborhoods, 6th region of Mashhad

Mixed land use includes various land uses which are adjacent to each other and linked together to accommodate either horizontal or vertical segments adjacent land and within a building to coexistence. Recent urban planning theories, emphasizing on several principles that make the mix use development is one of these principles. Mixed land use effects on travel demands and urban transportation efficiency. This research is applied and methodology in this study is descriptive – analytical that the data collection is the documents (the library) and survey that were collected through questionnaires (designed by the researchers), interviews and surveys. This paper examines the relationship between mixed land use and distribution of intra- neighborhoods and extra-neighborhoods travels. The case studies are two neighborhoods (Chahno and Karmandan) that the Chahno has more mixed land use than Karmandan and we divided types of trips to intra and extra-neighborhoods. It was found that neighborhood with high land use mix reduced automobile travel demands and attract extra-neighborhood trips and the neighborhood with low land use mix have high extra-neighborhood trips. Therefore, findings of this study show that role of mixed land use on attract extra-neighborhood trips and it reduced automobile dependency.