چكيده به لاتين
Transportation is one of the major factors of the economy, especially for Iran, which has a strategic position in connecting East to West. On the other hand, among the various modes of transportation, railway transportation has advantages such as safety, reducing energy consumption, and environmental friendliness. Also, many countries are looking to launch a high-speed railway in the passenger sector to take advantage of the countless benefits of this mode like balanced socio-economic development, and also due to population growth and growing travel demand this mode has received more attention. Iran is one of the countries that has been trying to increase the speed of rail lines or build high-speed railways for many years. However, the very low speed of its implementation and numerous executive problems in its way, all have caused us not to achieve HST till now. This fact has made us try to search for identifying the success factors in the implementation of the high-speed train. In this study, the opinions of 12 experts in the railway transportation industry and 180 experts have been used. Also, with the help of exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical analysis, 34 identified factors have been clustered and ranked. finally, we achieved 34 factors in 8 categories: “supply, equipment and communication”, “organizational issues”, “planning”, “Support and Participation”, “Foreign Knowledge and Capital”, “Policy Making”, “Socio-Financial”, “Political-Economic Resistance”. Among them, the areas of Planning and Political-Economic Resistance have higher importance
