Abstract
In the betwixt mountainous areas of Japan, the regional decline accompanying the depopulation and aging has been becoming seriously. So these betwixt mountainous areas are required the regional redesign that enables to maintain the quality of area and life. However, as for the betwixt mountainous areas, basic database such as resident's lifestyles that contribute to evaluate CO2 emission has not yet been fully developed. In order to evaluate the effect of low-carbon measures with accuracy in the betwixt mountainous areas and suggest the new regional design in line with the actual situation of the rural, it is essential to understand the resident's consciousness and actual living conditions. Therefore based on these background, we conducted survey on the current situation of actual condition of daily mobile environment and tried to sort out the problems of daily life focusing on mobility in betwixt mountainous areas. And in addition to that, we collected the person trip data that contributed to the prediction of redesigned effect.
As a result of the survey, the traffic share of cars accounted for 90%, and public transportations were 2% lower than on foot. The annual car mileage of Hidakagawa Town was 2.8 times nationwide. These results showed that the frequency of use and degree of dependence of automobile was high trend. There was a clear correlation between each age and residential areas with the ratio of the mobility-impaired people, and 40% of the latter-stage elderly people rated themselves as mobility-impaired people. These results are related to problems such as lower satisfaction of public transportations and inconvenience in the purchase of daily goods in betwixt mountainous areas. So, in this study it was shown that betwixt mountainous areas had a lot of problems in their daily life focusing on mobility.
