STUDY ABOUT P&R PARKING LOTS’ EVALUATION USING AHP FROM TOURIST PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Today, many people visit Kyoto for tourism and the number of Kyoto tourists will increase in the future. On the other hand, many tourists driving a car cause serious traffic jam. To mitigate this traffic jam, P&R is promoted in Kyoto. The purpose of this study is investigating characteristic of tourists who are positive toward usage of P&R and making evaluation index of parking lots as P&R from tourist perspective using AHP for promoting P&R in Kyoto. This study focuses on the questionnaire survey result for people who have experience of Kyoto tourism by a car. From the questionnaire survey result, I investigate characteristic of Kyoto tourists by using quantification theory type II. As the result, it is revealed that having P&R experience, having high awareness to environment, being under 30 years old and driving more than three days a week are characteristic of tourists who are positive to use P&R. Next, from paired comparison result of evaluation criterion in the questionnaire survey, I make evaluation index of P&R parking lots by AHP. it becomes possible to calculate weight of P&R evaluation criterion and to evaluate P&R parking lots quantitatively. Using the result of analysis about characteristic of tourists who are positive to use P&R, I analyze evaluation focusing on tourists who are positive to use P&R, too. By using this evaluation index, I make color maps of parking lots' evaluation as P&R and visualize parking lots' potential as P&R in Kyoto.