Pathology of Multimodal Transit Development through Iran and providing its Improvement Framework (An Analysis of Three Areas of Maritime, Road and Rail Transport)

The Islamic Republic of Iran, due to its connection with free seas, has a great importance for the transit of goods. Pathology of the Present Status of Multimodal Transit and its Strategies for Success in Iran, are the main goals of this research. In this research, using grounded theory and deep interview methods, identifying the factors affecting the success of multimodal transit in Iran and it has been studied the Iranian transit systems based on the above model and how to improve it. The statistical community is composed of experts in transportation and transit of goods, traders and Merchants and analysis of information, done with MAXQDA software. With this research, the causes and factors of the lack of development of Iran transit in different areas were identified and classified into six categories and 32 main factors and some solutions suggested for their improvement.