Economic Evaluation of Public Facilities: Regional Utilization Other than Intended Purposes of School Facilities

  • MATSUMURA Toshihide
    Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Doctoral Course
  • ASAHI Chisato
    Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences

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  • 公共施設再編における施設の経済的評価法に関する考察
  • 公共施設再編における施設の経済的評価法に関する考察 : 地域における学校施設の目的外使用の観点から
  • コウキョウ シセツ サイヘン ニ オケル シセツ ノ ケイザイテキ ヒョウカホウ ニ カンスル コウサツ : チイキ ニ オケル ガッコウ シセツ ノ モクテキ ガイ シヨウ ノ カンテン カラ
  • ──地域における学校施設の目的外使用の観点から──

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<p> Of the public facilities owned by the basic municipality, the elementary and junior high school related facilities occupying more than 40% of the floor space based on the floor area are facilities for implementing compulsory education services. However, school facilities also have certain functions from the viewpoint of out-of-purpose use such as disaster prevention in the region.</p><p> Out-of-purpose use of school facilities can be used for social education, sports promotion, other elections, disasters and emergencies. Many of these functions are supposed to selectively or optionally utilize school facilities by local residents, etc.</p><p> This paper aims to examine and discuss the nature and role of project evaluation in the reorganization of school facilities. It is the basis for building an evaluation method for public facility restructuring that contributes to regional sustainability.</p><p> The travel cost method with the movement to school facilities as a proxy market and the hedonic price method using real estate prices reflecting access to school facilities are suitable for comprehensive evaluation method of multipurpose use. However, in either case, since distance and accessibility to school facilities are subject to evaluation, several problems arise. For one thing, preference for school facilities to school facilities will also be evaluated together, so it can be difficult to screen out from non-purpose use. For example, differences in land prices by school districts may represent preferences for school academic ability and quality of households more than preference for non-purpose use. Also, since school districts of elementary and junior high schools are generally within walking distance, it is conceivable that difference in access time and distance constituting a travel expenses for non-purpose use is difficult to differ.</p><p> As described above, it is desirable that a method that can be evaluated comprehensively, which can be distinguished from other use purpose (school education) of school facilities, for evaluation of non-purpose use. Therefore, it is considered that a discrete choice method that can describe multiple elements making up the utility function and can estimate the evaluation from the relation between utility and selection is suitable.</p><p> For the elementary and junior high school facilities owned by the municipality, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the utilization of facilities for local residents.</p><p> Regarding the binary choice of using the nearest school or not, we performed logit regression using several attributes of the questionnaire respondent as explanatory variables.</p><p> Regarding the use outside the purpose of school, household income, sex, participation in school events, survival hope of school, area of gymnasium, and area of buildings has explanatory power.</p><p>JEL Classifications:D61, H83, R53</p>

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  • Studies in Regional Science

    Studies in Regional Science 50 (1), 55-72, 2020

    JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

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