Abstract : Due to the significant rise in the number of private automobiles for several decades, numerous transportation-related matters have worsened very quickly. The most affected areas are those designed for pedestrians basically, such as downtown and historical cores. Recently, pedestrianization has been promoted as a feasible trend to promote sustainable social and economic growth in such urban communities. The lead in this trend was for European and American cities, but there was success in applying this approach in some cases and failure in others, which is mainly due to the wrong choice of the area suitable for applying the approach in terms of its urban, social and environmental conditions. Many towns and municipalities around the world want to make parts of their central districts pedestrianized, but they lack the means and expertise to carry out a comprehensive feasibility assessment of the project before starting it to avoid its failure after implementation. This study aims to create an initial index that can help local governments to identify the appropriation of a district for pedestrianization. This index aims to identify and reject unfeasible candidate districts early on, allowing resources to be redirected toward developing more effective plans for districts deemed more suitable for pedestrianization. The index will be developed based on a literature review, followed by a comparative and analytical study of several successful international case studies. To make the index quantitative, the scoring system for the index criteria will be done through statistical analysis to determine the relative importance degree of each criterion. So, the research result will be a quantitative initial index to determine a district's suitability for pedestrianization schemes.