Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)
Online ISSN : 2185-6540
ISSN-L : 2185-6540
Infrastructure Planning and Management Vol.37 (Special Issue)
DEVELOPMENT OF A PRACTICAL EVALUATION METHOD FOR POLICIES THAT SUPPORT ACTIVITIES OF ELDERLY PEOPLE
Kengo OCHINobuo SEKIKenta OHTSUKARyoji ISHIIMomoko KATOChikako HARADATakahiro ISHIGAMI
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2020 Volume 75 Issue 6 Pages I_43-I_55

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Preparing and managing a circumstance that enables elderly people to have an easy access to join any social activities are is an important issue of building urban policies. To make the policies, it is needed to bring up efficient and effective ideas for facility placement and transportation policies while considering the financial restrictions . This research aims to develop a practical evaluation method for policies that support activities of elderly people, based on behavioral data. It would be a new method for “Smart Planning” which has been proceeded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to support local governments in formulating facility location planning. In this study we conducted well-detailed the behavioral survey of elderly people that used both GPS systems and paper based question form, and it lead to obtain the basic knowledge of frequency and destination of the personal daily activities. Furthermore we introduced the frameworks of a practical method for evaluating public facility locations and transportationpolicies, which includes public transportation and pedestrian, learned from the analyzed result.

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