Review and prioritize urban areas with an emphasis on the impact of free trade-industrial zones on improvement of social indicators (Case Study: Chabahar City)

Proximity of Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone with Chabahar city it has caused changes in various dimensions, especially the social dimension for this city and the surrounding areas. This study reviews and prioritizes urban areas of Chabahar with an emphasis on the impact of free tradeindustrial zones on the improvement of social indicators.

The present study in terms of purpose, is a developmental research and the research method is analytical and based on library, documentary and field studies. The statistical population of the present study includes the residents of the four areas of Chabahar (106739 people) whose sample size was calculated using the Cochran's formula and the number (382) people was determined. I distributed questionnaires in the four districts of Chabahar city in terms of population ratio. Data analysis software (SPSS) and Fuzzy ELECTRE model were used.

The results of regression analysis showed that all items of social dimension with a level of 99% confidence have a significant relationship with the free trade-industrial zone. Also, the results of the test (ANOVA) showed that because the significance level is less than (0.05), it can be said with 0.95 confidence, among the areas of Chabahar city, There is a significant difference in terms of the impact of the free trade zone on the development of social indicators. Finally, the results of prioritization of Chabahar city areas with emphasis on the impact of free trade-industrial zone with the focus on the development of social indicators using the fuzzy electricity model showed that (Area 2) is in the priority.

The general results show social indicators affected by commercial-industrial free zones cause spatial differences in urban areas of Chabahar and different levels of social development can be seen in the city.