Investigation of Catalyst Projects and Urban Design Qualities in Six Central Streets of Hamedan

Abstract

Streets are like a vein in the body and play an important role in whole cities. These crucial elements are so essential in each cities structure. The primary roots of the system can quickly figure out by the distribution of city streets. So central streets are more critical than the peripheral ones because more users refer to them. Hamedan is a mountainous city in the west of Iran, which is shape by circles form . This unique structure is exceptional in Iran and is based on the main square and its six streets. This paper tries to figure out the differences between this street, catalyst intervention, and cardriven streets. Also, comparing these two types of streets and their results can help urban management and city responsible. Catalyst projects are some intervene that seek to inject new spirit in target areas. These actions are trying to respond to further people's needs based on the context's general identity. The research methodology is quantitative based on ANP techniques to specify these six streets' priorities and interpret differences between catalysts projects and cars-driven streets. So, the results show that two streets among six central streets are more acceptable in users' mindsets. Bu Ali st and Ekbatan st have high normalized points than other streets. Besides, users can easily walk all the parts of these two streets, perform window shopping, sit wherever they want, and do all kinds of group and individual activities. These consequences have more overlapping with two streets that have been intervened by catalyst actions, and their roles transformed into walkable instead of car-driven streets.

State of the Art Review on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Urban Mobility

“…This was due to the low number of abstracts submitted to Track 11. None of the three abstract was on urban mobility, but, instead of this they focused on catalyst projects [28], the geographic information system (GIS) [29], and photovoltaic power plants [30]. Therefore, our abstract [11], cited in Section 1, presented in a poster session, was the only work on urban mobility in the last ISAHP.…”