چكيده به لاتين
Traffic generated and attracted by the construction of buildings in cities, causes traffic problems. The traffic impact study is used as a planning tool by Transportation agencies to predict and assess the traffic impacts of construction of new developments on the transport system. The necessity of conducting traffic impact studies is to determine such things as, The amount of travel generated by land uses, the share of transportation modes and the influence area. Due to the growing cities and the growing individuals needs, special attention should be paid to shopping centers that play an important role in meeting the individuals needs, so that proper knowledge of the shopping centers and travel related to them and provide a way to determine these cases is important today.
Considering these cases, this thesis provides a method for determining the trip generation of shopping centers, the share of transportation modes used by shopping centers customers and the influence area. This is done by using counting of individuals, surveying them and collecting data for each location in three shopping centers in Tehran and trip generation rates of the shopping center, in terms of person-trips and vehicle-trips, the travel mode share and the influence area are presented. In addition, an interval estimation and hypothesis testing were used to confirm or refuse the obtained rates and determination their reliability, indicating that these rates can not be generalized for the entire community and that the results of this study can only be used for the construction of similar centers.
