Normative Approach For Evaluating Accessibility Residents’ and Tourists’ Trip Comfortability Perspective To A Historic Religious City
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city center, historic religious city, Road Street network (RSN), Likert scale survey, accessibility indicatorsAbstract
One of the most significant aspects of urban transportation planning is accessibility. A variety of studies have been conducted on calculating accessibility using motorized modes in metropolitan areas. In this paper, the accessibility of four different modes of transport was assessed in Karbala City Centre (KCC). Religious-Cultural Cities that have experienced an increase in problematic urban areas with economic, social, and environmental issues are impacting their livability which require critical research to guide policy planning and development. Religious-cultural tourism is a strong motivator to preserve cultural heritage in tourist destinations. It helps to preserve heritage as an invaluable tourist attraction. In recent years, a city's rapid growth has resulted in an increase in tourists, people, and cars, along with a limited expansion of the roads. This has resulted in frequent traffic complications and excessive congestion, which negatively affects the environment, economy, travel time, and safety that is causing inconveniences to its citizens and visitors. This paper studied and analyzed the performance using Minitab Statistical Software of the transport network structure inside the KCC using a Likert Scale Survey and measured the level of comfortability during people's (residents and tourists) journey to KCC. This work found that 61% of participants responded concerning the integration of various types of public transport inaccessible and 57% the integration of private and public modes of transport is not available. As a result, the use of the knowledge and understanding of accessibility measures to better plan and organize the structure of roads.
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