Reza Kheyroddin - Urbanism PhD, Assistant professor Department of urbanism, IUST;
Jamshid Movlavipanah - Chief of airports Master plan at Iran airport and air Navigation Company;
Javad Kamali - Master student in urban planning, IUST;

Airports that once were located out of the city because of the community needs, have gradually created challenges with the physical growth of the city and being surrounded by the urban areas. Inner-city airport on the one hand leads to environmental and social issues etc., for residents of the surrounding areas and on the other hand, the airport is in the bottleneck to develop in line with the increasing cargo and passengers. Organizing inner-city airport issues in its affecting area requires limitation on the functioning of the airport. By reducing the airport performance, air travel demand should be offset through other modes of transport that in addition to responding to passenger demand, improve issues related to the surrounding urban areas. The development of high-speed railway across various cities includes alternative modes for compensation for air transport need. The study aimed to investigate the relation between rail and air transportation in Mehrabad inner-city airport to meet air transportation demand and modulate its negative effects on the surrounding urban areas. Pursuing research objective is based on an approach to study concepts and experiences and the method is comparative analytical. The results showed that developing high-speed rail transport is a viable alternative to air transportation at distances less than 800 km. Finally, by studying and detecting Mehrabad issues in its affected urban area, requirements and how to develop the rail network in relation to Mehrabad airport are described.

Integration of air and rail transportation, high speed rail (HSR), inner-city Mehrabad airports, affected urban area