TY - JFULL AU - Khashayar Kashani Jou PY - 2012/8/ TI - Walking and Sustainable Urban Transportation T2 - International Journal of Transport and Vehicle Engineering SP - 495 EP - 501 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9095 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 67, 2012 N2 - Walking as a type of non-motorized transportation has various social, economical and environmental privileges. Also, today different aspects of sustainable development have been emphasized and promotion of sustainable transportation modes has been considered according to this approach. Therefore, the objective of this research is exploring the circumstance of relationship between walking and sustainable urban transportation.For writing this article, the most important resources related to the traits of walking have been surveyed via a documentary method and after explaining the concept of sustainable transportation and its indicators, benefiting from the viewpoints of transportation experts of Tehran, as the capital and greatest city of Iran, different modes of urban transportation have been compared in proportion to each criterion and to each other and have been analyzed according to AHP method. The results of this study indicate that walking is the most sustainable mode of inner city transportation. ER -