Naser Shafii Sabet, Siavash Moradimokaram,
Volume 0, Issue 50 (10-2023)
Abstract
Access to the rural transportation system is an essential part of the economy and it is one of the components that can be effective in the economic development of rural areas. In this regard, to clarify the issue in detail, in the current quantitative research, data collection was done through a questionnaire tool and the relationship between the accessibility of the transportation system and the economic development of rural areas in the form of 8 indicators at the level of 30 villages and 368 sample households in Asadabad city. Descriptive and inferential form was measured. The findings reveal that all the indicators of access to the transportation system have been effective on the economic development indicators of the rural areas of Asadabad city. Also, a significant relationship was observed between the access of the villages to the transportation system and the improvement of their economic development according to their settlement system in plain, foothills, and mountainous locations. In other words, in addition to the accessibility to the transportation system and the distance of the villages to the urban and rural market centers, the location of the villages has been effective in the economic development of the villages. Based on the standardized beta coefficient of the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable, the results show that the effect coefficients for each of the indicators of the rural transportation system are positive and the significance level is less than (0.05); that the direct and significant effect of each of the indicators of the rural transportation system on the economic development of rural areas has been confirmed. It can be said that based on the Beta values, in the order of improvement of transportation services, 0.341 had the most effect and the least effect was the expansion of transportation infrastructure 0.270.
