An Integrated Framework for Planning Complete Streets towards Sustainable Mobility

This Ph.D. dissertation addresses the relationship between planning successful complete streets and promoting the use of active modes of transportation towards enhancing the level of sustainability in transportation sector within the communities. In this regard, this research by qualitative grounded study has an intention to provide a comprehensive explanation on the concept of sustainable transportation and active transportation in order to enhance the knowledge about the relationship of these two main concepts. Besides, this study is going to clarify the main variables that must be considered by planners in the process of promoting the use of active modes of transportation in communities. Furthermore, a wide-ranging of clarification by focusing on policy and planning approaches related to complete streets movement provided based on existing literature, technical reports, and guidelines. In this way, the study clarifies the main elements related to the policy of complete street, components, and design treatments and the determinative variables and steps that consideration of them are substantial in the planning process of complete streets. The outcome of this study reveals that the main determinative variables that must be considered in process of planning successful complete streets towards promoting the use of active modes of transportation are categorized in two main groups include variables related to the social and the built environment contexts. Besides, the study also recommended a new framework towards planning successful complete streets by considering the determinative variables that can guide decision-makers, planners, and designer to get appropriate decisions in the way of increasing the level of sustainable mobility within the communities.