Relationship between Level of Travel Service and Quality of Life for the Aged in Depopulated Communities

Abstract

This paper investigates various policies improving transport and everyday services for the aged in depopulated communities. A questionnaire survey is carried out for all citizens in a community where the aged ratio is 56.8%. A QOL indicator is proposed to evaluate transportation and the other everyday services for elderly people in the depopulated area. A cause and effect relationship among each policy is obtained by application of co-variance structure analysis. Moreover, a tradeoff between transportation service and other everyday services is analyzed using conjoint analysis.