Allocation of Cultural Centre in Yazd City with a Combination Method of Traffic Simulation & Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation in GIS

With the increase in the population of cities and the need to develop cultural center uses in the vicinity of residential and service users, is considered. An important question in this regard is the location of the cultural center. In this research, GIS and Multiple-criteria decision-making methods with a hierarchical analysis approach based on the opinion of elites have been used to allocate the cultural center in Yazd. In this research, it was tried to add traffic parameters (such as the street width, traffic capacity, etc.) in the weighting stage to the set of effective parameters in allocating the cultural center. The selected options were also evaluated based on macro-simulation analysis using TransCAD traffic software to consider the impact of each on the existing traffic networks before and after their construction in the decision-making process. The final map is used to characterize the best places for the cultural center and by using traffic software, the best place is selected. The combination of these two approaches helps to estimate the traffic demand in peak hours in a traffic network in the special place allocated for the central place and helps to decide based on its performance that is a new experience for allocating which help to decrease future problems.