A Study on the Relationship between Consciousness of Supporting Side and Subjective Well-being for Community Based Public Transport

Abstract

Residents in areas where bus routes have been abolished has a major challenge that it is difficult to have the opportunity of movement if private cars can not be used. As one of the countermeasures, there are cases where the local residents themselves are the administrators themselves to have community based public transport, and there are merits such as cost savings, fine-tuning of operations, and improvement of local community vitality, so introduction and operation continuation is done throughout the country. In this research, we focus on the "consciousness of the supporting side" by residents who do not normally use it, and we aim to know that in the area where the local residents mainly operate community based public transport, how they are related to the satisfaction level of the residents' living, eventually the sense of subjective well-being. As a result, " consciousness of the supporting side " is related to subjective well-being, indicating the possibility of giving positive influence.