The effect of the road environment on the physical activity of the residents as the stock effect of community roads

Abstract

This study focused on a kind of stock effect of the community road. The stock effects of the road are mainly discussed on the trunk roads and highways, but even on the community level road, there could be multi-effects on the life, economy and health of the inhabitants. The purpose of this study is to find out those effects on the residents'life. The process we adopted is the measurement of the road environment of the community and the proposition of the indices made from them, that implies the walkability and drivability. Then we estimated multilevel logistic regression model using the questionnaire survey of the residents' health condition and physical activities as the objective variable, while we used the proposed indices as the explanatory variable. The results of the model indicated the significance of the relationship between the indices and the residents' physical activities. We concluded the community roads have significant stock effects on the residents' physical activity.