Integrated Transportation and Land Use Modeling in Shiraz Metropolis with an Activity-Based Approach

Isolation of transportation and land use decision making process and consequently increasing car ownership, increasing travel distance, increasing air pollution and noise pollution, environmental problems, etc. are essential issues of urban planning in Iran. Accordingly, the present paper examines integrated transport and land use modeling. In this regard, the process and evolution of transportation and land use planning and travel approaches have been studied. In the following, the urbansim framework for parts of districts 1 and 6 of Shiraz metropolitan is presented as the case study and the modified urbansim is selected as the case study model of this study. In order to access the data and information needed for modeling, documents of Iran national population and housing census of year 1395, Shiraz transportation master plan, GIS maps of Shiraz detailed plan and also questionnaire are being used. After studying the activity patterns of households in the study area, modeling of household residential location choice and Activity-based Household Accessibility is modeled. The quasi-activity model discussed in this study considers this index in the form of characteristics of the household activity pattern, including travel mode availability and household interactions. These indicators are measured at the household level, and the travel chain and the choice of travel mode play a role in facilitating the micro-simulations.