Reorganizing and improving the adverse effects imposed by transportation and also considering an appropriate process for the future development of transportation section are main objectives of sustainable transportation development. Present study is practical in terms of objects, surveying in terms of kind and descriptive in terms of the nature of qualitative data. This research is a documentary study based on the information collection. The objective of this research is to investigate and identify the affective factors in the future development of sustainable transportation of Tehran in the 2025 horizon. In this regard, 24 affecting factors in sustainable transportation were extracted from the 2025 perspective document of Tehran metropolis and the master plan for Tehran. The importance of each factor is determined through a questionnaire and finally 18 important factors are extracted in 5 economic, social, environmental, physical and macro aspects. Identification of influencing and key factors on the future development of sustainable transportation of Tehran metropolis were performed by the structural analysis method and MicMac software. According to the research findings, the results indicate that the affective key factors in the future development of Tehran include: transportation infrastructure, compact urban construction, culture, transportation system management, and new technologies. The results show that development of transportation infrastructure of Tehran metropolis and existence of modern technologies in the transportation system would help the air quality of this metropolis to improve, besides reducing its traffic. The governing perspective and approach towards management must be prospective and aligned with the future architecture.

Keywords: Metropolis, Sustainable Transportation, Structural Analysis, MicMac

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