Pedestrian walkways play the significant role in residents' movement in cities and the traffic transfer of different areas in the city. Nowadays, the increasing population of cities and traffic problems make it essential to pay more attention to creating the sidewalks and pedestrian walkways. The development of pedestrian pathways and encouragement of the public to walk will play an important role in sustainable development. Designing based on the available laws and standards is one of the best ways for designing the pathways with characteristics above. In our country, designing the than the pedestrian pathways is less adapted to the laws and available standards. This paper seeks to investigate the standards of pedestrian and pedestrian pathways in order to determine the overall framework for designing the pedestrian pathways.

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