Urban and Regional Development Planning
Aliakbar Salaripour; Arman Hamidi; Alieh Faridi Foshtomi,; Amir Hosein Nourbakhsh
Abstract
The current research is descriptive-quantitative. In order to collect information with the aim of measuring the impact of the degree of attachment to the city as well as the individual characteristics of the citizens on the occurrence of pro-environmental behaviors among the citizens, a number of 402 ...
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The current research is descriptive-quantitative. In order to collect information with the aim of measuring the impact of the degree of attachment to the city as well as the individual characteristics of the citizens on the occurrence of pro-environmental behaviors among the citizens, a number of 402 questionnaires were completed by the residents of Rasht city. The data obtained from the questionnaires were quantitatively entered into the SPSS software and then modeling and analysis of the findings were done using the Smart PLS3 software. The results of the research showed that, contrary to expectations, there is no effective relationship between the indicators of individual attachment to the place, place of birth, length of residence and level of education on the environmental protection behaviors of citizens; But on the other hand, the modeling results showed that in the first step, the environmental protection behaviors of the citizens have the most connection and effectiveness with the social attachment of the citizens to the place or the city, and there is a significant link between these two variables, so this variable It can be an important factor in the formation and direction of citizens' minds in order to support the environment of their city. Then, in the next step, a number of individual characteristics of citizens, including age and marital status, also affect the environmental protection behaviors of citizens, and there is a direct relationship between them.
fateme ghorbani; Aliakbar Salaripour
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Due to global warming, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and people's dependence on private cars, the need for more attention from urban experts to the impact of urban form indicators and economic and social indicators on energy consumption and traffic behaviors of citizens, becomes more critical ...
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Due to global warming, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and people's dependence on private cars, the need for more attention from urban experts to the impact of urban form indicators and economic and social indicators on energy consumption and traffic behaviors of citizens, becomes more critical than before Among these, the city form with indicators such as density, mixed land-use, design, distance to public transportation, and distance to the city center is one of the most important determining factors in the travel patterns of residents. The present study is applied research with 1000 sample volumes to investigate the relationship between city form indicators and socio-economic indicators as well as household travel behavior on the distance between household travel and VKT in the traffic areas of Qazvin city. In this study, statistical methods of Pearson correlation and multivariate regression have been used. The analysis results indicate that the variables of city form and socio-economic variables, and household travel behavior affect the distance traveled by private car up to 23%, the distance traveled by the family up to 33%, and the working distance of households up to 17%. In this study, the distance to the city center (with a beta coefficient of 0.217) is the most essential variable of city form affecting the amount of VKT, and the factor of vehicle ownership (with a beta coefficient of 0.243) is the most influential economic variables on the amount of VKT.
