The strategic principles of facing the traffic problem as a problem of political malformation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Doctoral student of Dafos Faculty, Tehran-Iran, Amin Faraja Comprehensive University of Police Sciences, Tehran-Iran

2 Department of Traffic Safety Management, Amin University of Police Sciences, Faculty of Command and Staff, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/road.2023.390627.2152

Abstract

Background and purpose: Traffic management is a multidimensional management that has a specific complexity that differentiates it in terms of substance and has made conducting research activities in the traditional way, as it was done with the involvement of only one field, ineffective; The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the strategic principles of dealing with the traffic problem as a problem of policy malformation.Method: The research was applied in terms of purpose, in terms of mixed methods. In the qualitative section, the statistical population was the professors of the Command and Traffic School and in the quantitative section, the senior managers of the Faraja Traffic Police, the managers and heads of Tehran's traffic areas. Sampling in the qualitative part was based on a purposeful method based on criteria, and in the quantitative part, it was a simple random sampling method. For data analysis, was in the qualitative part of MAXQDA2020 software and in the quantitative part of Smart PLS3 software.Findings: The dimensions of the strategic principles of dealing with the traffic problem include complexity and interdependence, dynamic capabilities, multi-causality, and are based on the analyst's attitude, and the greatest impact was related to the dimension of complexity and interdependence, and the least impact was related to the analyst's attitude.

Results: Governments should change their perspective on the complex issue of traffic and should change from the perspective of command and management to the perspective of leadership with a cooperative approach of organizations involved field of traffic.

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