Mohamadali Fateminia; Ali Khaksari
Abstract
Transportation is an important part of sustainable urban development. Tehran intercity passenger terminals carry millions of passengers throughout the year and make a significant contribution to urban transportation and management. Tehran city terminals, in addition to their special physical space, are ...
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Transportation is an important part of sustainable urban development. Tehran intercity passenger terminals carry millions of passengers throughout the year and make a significant contribution to urban transportation and management. Tehran city terminals, in addition to their special physical space, are dominated by a special social space that has led to the production and even reproduction of various social harms and instabilities. The sampling method of this research is qualitative and judgmental. This research intends to identify and model the problems, inefficiencies and social instabilities of Tehran's terminals with a qualitative-exploratory approach and using thematic analysis technique. The findings of this study show that the terminals of Tehran have become a place for social harms due to risk factors such as congestion, instability of elements and factors, high turnover, urban entry and exit, legal vacuum in management and even religious issues. On the other hand, due to poor supervision and lack of integrated urban management, these damages and instabilities have overflowed to neighboring neighborhoods and even inside the bus, which has finally reproduced the vicious cycle of unstable space and social damage to the terminals.
