Effects of Land Use and Transport on Quality of Life : A Life-oriented Behavioral Analysis

収集根拠 : 博士論文（自動収集）
資料形態 : テキストデータ
コレクション : 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション > デジタル化資料 > 博士論文
In the field of land use and transport studies, residential and travel behavior is an important topic and has been widely researched. As a part of life choices, residential and travel behavior are expected to be interdependent with other life choices, considering that residence is a basic element of human life and travel is a “necessity” for participating in various activities outside homes. Especially, various life choices might be interacted with each other, which are further linked with people’s quality of life. However, the above interdependencies have not been satisfactorily explored in the sense that little has been done to examine the interdependencies across a set of life domains, even though one can find studies dealing with several life choice variables. Behaviorally, ignorance of interrelated life choices in a choice model may result in serious biases in model estimation. From the policy making perspective, such ignorance may lead to a failure of consensus building across different sectors and different stakeholders. In line with such considerations, Zhang (2014, 2015) proposed a life oriented approach in 2010, which argues that people’s life choices in various domains (e.g., residence, social, health, education, employment, family life, leisure and recreation, finance, and travel behavior) are interdependent. For residential and travel behavior, it can be further argued that residential and travel results from various life choices. Considering such interdependencies, it is not unrealistic to claim that understanding of residential and travel behavior should not be constrained by the boundary of integrated land use and transport research. Unfortunately, studies consistent with such considerations have been scarce and under-researched. This study aims to fill in this research gap. First, I plan to examine the values of life-oriented approach proposed by Zhang (2014, 2015) in the context of land use and transport planning. Second, three social issues in Japan are targeted: (1) women’s labor participation and childcare, (2) young adults’ lives (e.g., out-migration), and (3) elderly mobility. These three issues are closely related to land use and transport studies. Those not only involve various interrelated life choices, but also connect as social phenomena. By expanding the boundary of consideration to incorporate many aspects of life such as leisure and social life into the land use and transport related social issues based on the life oriented approach, this is beneficial to elicit insightful information into behavioral decision process under different real-life circumstances, and aid in developing increasingly richer structures used in behavioral appraisal and forecasting applications. Motivated by the foregoing considerations, my research questions are located.1. How to examine the values of life-oriented approach proposed by Zhang (2014, 2015) in the context of land use and transport planning?2. What reasons promote each social issue (e.g., elderly mobility) happen, especially from the perspective of land use and transport aspects?3. How to offer the policy applications to solve or mitigate each social issue and improve the level of quality of life for the young, the women, and the elderly, respectively, in Japan?In line with the above questions, this thesis consists of eight chapters.Chapter 1 describes the research background, challenges, objectives, methods and expected contributions.Chapter 2 gives a review of existing studies about land use, transport and quality of life. Firstly, studies associated with the definition and measurement of quality of life are summarized. Second, research regarding land use, transport and people’s various life aspects (e.g., health) both from static and dynamic perspectives are reviewed. Then, research concerning the effects of land use and transport on three varied social issues - women labor participation and childcare, young adults’ lives (e.g., out-migration), and elderly mobility are described. Finally, positions of this study is provided.Chapter 3 introduces the data application in this study. In order to analyze the effects of land use and transport on quality of life under different contexts, among different cohorts, especially from static, dynamic and long-term viewpoints, different time-series data sets are needed. Three web-based survey data are employed in this study, two life choice survey data in 2010 and 2014, respectively, and a life history survey data in 2010. The two life choice surveys include very detailed information of individual’s life choices (link with life domains of residence, social, health, finance, family life, education and learning, leisure and recreation, and employment) and individual characteristics (e.g., gender, age, occupation, education level, annual income, marital status, household composition, vehicle ownership, etc.). The first data set will be used in the analysis of capturing the interdependencies of life choices ...