Setting strategic urban development plan in Chabahar City Ref.No.SSTCRC2555
1. Introduction
Chabahar City by the Oman Sea usually sees as an international logistic center to support freight multimodal transportation and international trade. But the city does not have adequate infrastructure and ability equal to the expected role for it. Furthermore, Chabahar native inhabitants worry on their livelihoods. Therefore, Chabahar City should be renewed with new modern infrastructure to benefit its local privileges and increase its economic prospectivity. Writing a strategic development plan for the Chabahar is the first step to include the city in the international corridors.
2. Research Progress
The planning intended for preparing the strategic development plan of Chabahar city includes the following steps:
Step 1: Determining Chabahar development policies according to theoretical foundations derived from global experiences and local realities.
Step 2: Reviewing the documents and superior plans related to the city’s strategic-operational plan in order to measure the level of inhabitants’ satisfaction with the promises made so far.
Step 3: Study present situation of the city. Identifying and analyzing natural resources, location, socio-economic and spatial features through on ground explorations.
Step 4: Estimating the municipality’s income and sources of urban services and development projects’ financing.
Step 5: Explaining and formulating city development strategies derived from the field research and compiling a list of potential projects that should be defined and implemented for the development of Chabahar city in accordance with its international role and the needs of citizens.
Step 6: Summarizing the results and compiling a draft strategic-operational plan for the city’s development in order to attract investors to finance the implementation of the city’s strategic development projects.
3. Cooperation Required
This project needs financial support to conduct the research and finally publish its report.
4. Benefits and Outputs
-The development of the strategic development plan for Chabahar is for all companies and economic enterprises that wish to participate in the development activities of the region and exploit the benefits of this oceanic port. Investors can also find interesting information for decision-making by studying the strategic development plan for Chabahar. In addition, the program report can be used as a textbook by universities in courses on civil engineering, urban and regional planning, urban economics, natural resources, the environment, and urban sociology.
-One book with tens of introduced and defined projects will be output of this project. The book will be a guide for who are interested to invest in the big projects similar the Silk Road.