Effective factors for Designing and Developing Road Network from the Perspective of Rural Management (Study Area: Rural Settlements of Shahinshahr and Maymeh)

The network of passages has a great impact on the physical-spatial development of settlements, provided that they are used optimally. The lack of a comprehensive and coherent plan for the design of rural roads in Shahinshahr and Maymeh counties has created the ground for entangling rural structures, the disorder in the organization of inside arteries, and the incompatibility of the passages with its similar uses in the villages, that requires recognizing effective standards and operational solutions to create the right avenues. This study aimed to determine the most important effective factors of rural road network design and prioritize them from the perspective of rural managers of Shahinshahr and Maymeh counties. The present study was descriptive-analytical in terms of method, which was conducted by the survey method and using a questionnaire. The sample population was 86 people, which included 30 officials related to rural issues in the city (specialists and university professors), There were 14 village governors and 42 Islamic village councils. Data analysis was performed using inferential statistical methods such as a one-sample T-test by SPSS 22. The results obtained from the statistical analysis indicate that the use of each of the five standards in the design of the network of roads in the studied villages has been desirable, but the intensity of the desirability of some standards has been higher than others. Based on the results of the analysis of the one-sample T-test, the standards of "width of the road network" with the value of T (3.123) and "level and coverage of the road network" with the value of T (2.874) have the greatest impact on the design of the road network of the villages. They have studied from the point of view of rural officials. Also, the standard of "road construction model" with T value (1.785) and "architecture and appearance of the road network" with T value (0.654) is in the last rank. Their employment status has been more unfavorable than others.