Prioritization of Urban Streets to Traffic Calming Proceedings in Residential Neighborhoods

Exponential increase of urban population and increasing use of vehicles have created problems for residential areas. Security and calm level and traffic calming, nowadays, is one of the significant subjects in urbanization and urban transportation programming. This research by expressing descriptions and propounded theoretical foundations on traffic calming is engaged in expressing criterions on this subject and is aimed to measure prioritizing areas thoroughfares of 5&6 in Tehransar at district 1, region21 of Tehran city by relying on these criterions and AHP to fulfill projects of traffic calming. So a questionnaire organized after measuring these criterions and 200 questionnaires distributed by cluster among residents and urban management organization experts and then the data was gathered, Cronbach›s coefficient was computed for the reliability of the questionnaire which it›s amount was %78 percent that indicates suitable reliability of the questions. The result indicates that Tehransar Boulevard is placed in the first priority of the traffic calming measures and streets of Laleh, Gholha and Nilofar are, in order, placed in the next priorities. As effective factors are multidimensional, in order to make traffic calm within the limit of the case study, it must be strategically programmed to achieve transportation indexes. It can also be used in another dimension physical methods beside the promotion of the citizen›s traffic culture.