Proposal for Creation of a Consensus Building Process Map to Promote Efforts to Ensure Local Mobility

Abstract

While ensuring local mobility is one of the most effective ways to maintain and improve vitality in the area, the environment which surrounds local mobility has been continuously deteriorating due to economic recession, depopulation, and an aging society with decreasing birth rates. Conventional ways to ensure local mobility, which have depended on traffic companies and the government, have become increasing difficult. Under such circumstances, ensuring local mobility through the cooperation and coordination of various stakeholders, including the government and traffic companies, under the initiative of local residents has become a potentially successful style, especially in rural areas. This paper focusses on consensus building processes by the participation of the various stakeholders, and proposes a method of preparing a consensus building process map which will permit the abstraction of knowledge concerning the promotion of efforts based on existing cases.