The importance of studying services lies in their direct connection to the lives of residents from social, environmental, and economic perspectives. Services are also among the most crucial elements of residential areas, as these areas derive their significance and efficiency from the availability of services and their ability to meet the needs of residents and economic activities. The nature and scale of these services vary depending on the size and type of the area, as well as the requirements of the population, which differ from one region to another. These needs are also influenced by the economic status, social behaviors, habits, and cultural level of the residents. Services are one of the key components of urban settlements, clearly reflected in land-use maps, due to the large spaces they occupy compared to other uses and the necessity of their widespread distribution across any urban mass. In Egypt, strategic urban development plans have adopted a strategic planning approach, which includes proposals for service programs. The methodology used in studying services within these strategic plans relies on three main axes for proposing future service programs in cities: numerical standards, geographic distances, and administrative levels. These standards are unified across all settlements, neglecting certain other factors, such as the economic function of these settlements. This is the focus of this research, which aims to measure the impact of the economic function of settlements on the formulation of future service programs, thus proposing a developed framework for studying service programs within the preparation of strategic plans for Egyptian cities.