Mobility Assessment for Sustainable Rural Development: Conversion of Conventional Mobility Data and Historical Analysis
2017 年 8 巻 1 号 p. 70-76
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2017 年 8 巻 1 号 p. 70-76
Dawei Special Economic Zone (DSEZ) Project is one of the largest petrochemical industrial estates in South East Asia which aims to transform the country into a pivotal hub for regional connectivity and logistics. Socio-economic factors determine local lifestyles, including mobility pattern, and directly impact on rural sustainability. Changes in mobility may represent not only generating alternative opportunities associated with socio-economic development, but also the vulnerability of rural people which can be a significant challenge for social sustainability in a rural area. Consequently, mobility can be one of the powerful indexes to assess impacts resulted in socio-economic changes in a long-term. The objectives of this paper are to: convert conventional mobility data to spatiotemporal data and visualize them; and to assess the change of mobility in 2005, 2010 and 2015 with respect to social parameters such as sex and age. A total of 345 individual respondents were stratified-randomly selected for assessing one-day mobility. Conversion of conventional mobility data was conducted using online maps. Historical analysis of mobility data was conducted after performing mobility data validation. The result shows that different mobility was observed by sex and age group. Average increases of males’ mobile distance between 2005/2010 and 2010/2015 show 2.6 and 1.7 times increase, while that of females shows 1.6 and 2.6 times, respectively. Especially, working age females show a high increase in 2010/2015. The study concluded that mobility data obtained in different formats in different time periods can be integrated and visualized for long-term mobility assessment. This contributes to better understand how local people is responding to such socio-economic development. Mobility can be an important parameter and further provides significant perspectives to policy development for sustainable rural development.
