Investigating the impact of physical dimensions - space to encourage walking in Tehran (Case Study: neighborhood Amirabad and Daneshgah Tehran)

This study examined the effect of physical dimensions - space to encourage walking in Tehran. Micro level and macro level of the position of the subject matter, the authors were forced to Amirabad area of Tehran University as an area of study of their choice. The research method is analytical and survey. And the questionnaire for citizens was used. The population of the study, all residents of the neighborhood Amirabad and up Tehran University, using a sample of 384 randomly selected examples. The writers for more accurate research results, the sample size has been increased to 400. For data analysis software is used SPSS21 and LISREL8. The results indicate that the physical dimensions - space and encourage walking there. The amount of factor loadings obtained in all the research indicates that the selected indicators to measure the physical dimensions of space, encourage walking properly measure these dimensions, so that the physical dimensions, safety index (99/0 ) and the spatial dimensions of the security indicator (75/0) have had the highest amount of loadings. In addition, the effect of spatial scale on a direct and positive are encouraged to walk in space as well as the physical dimensions of 34/0 and 42/0 of variance explained that encourage walking.