Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of strolling and the factors for changing strolling courses in the area where a bridge was newly built. The case study area is the central area of Miyazaki-City, in which Tenman-bridge was newly built in 2006. A questionnaire survey was conducted over strolling people. This paper firstly analyzed the characteristics of strolling such as purpose, course, time and distance. Then, the course changes were analyzed based on elemental links and the relation with favorite links. Finally, the factors of course changing were identified. This paper revealed that, in planning new roads/bridges suitable for strolling, it is important to consider surrounding circumstances and to integrate attractive places into various strolling courses which have 3-4km distances.
