Strategic Planning to Decrease Intra-city Accidents and Improve the Performance of Road Network (Case study: Marvdasht City)

Nowadays, the issue of urban accident is considered as a social problem in the world that has many human and financial costs for any society every year. In the current situation, our country experiences the highest rate of deaths from traffic accidents in the world. Unfortunately, in the field of urban car accidents in Iran, enough studies haven’t been done yet. In this regard, this study tries to plan a strategy within the city in order to reduce accidents and improve sidewalks. This research has a descriptive-analytical methodology and is considered as an applied–developmental research. To analyze the data, the software SPSS, Excel and Expert Choice have been used. Part of required data based on 1391-1393 statistics provided by the city's traffic center. The SWOT model has been used to adopt the necessary strategies to reduce accidents. Using the AHP and SWOT techniques, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the Marvdasht urban road network were obtained. The results indicate that among the defense, revise or adapt, contingency and competitive / aggressive strategies, defense or adapt strategies were used in order to improve the road network. These solutions are to meet required parking lots, to remove different bumpers for reducing high speed and inputs in some streets and improve the traffic knowledge of citizens.