Development of a Tool Using GIS to Measure Elderly Citizens’ Accessibility: A Case Study of Welfare Bus Services in Suita City

Most developed countries are ageing, and Japan is no exception. Rather, it is the fastest graying society in the world. For aging societies, it is important in city planning to provide a user-friendly transportation environment so that elderly people maintain their independent status within the community. To solve this problem local governments have provided various transit systems such as special transportation services, delivery of taxi tickets and community bus services. At some levels, these services are easy to provide as the planning processes are conducted in quite a simple fashion and accessibility for the elderly is often not taken into account. There is already extensive literature examining accessibility by applying criteria such as (1) Distance, (2) Generalized time, (3) Cumulative opportunities, (4) Gravity-based criteria, (5) Utility-based criteria and (6) Space-time criteria on traditional transportation modes such as walking or taking the train, bus or car. However, there are very few studies which explicitly take into consideration integrated views of elderly people, transportation and facility attributes. Since there are advantages and disadvantages to be found in the different attributes, it is therefore necessary to review and apply each measure to our study. This study develops an accessibility-measuring tool using GIS techniques to integrate various points of accessibility. This tool is suitable for transportation planning at city level as is able to calculate a series of accessibility measures and cover most attributes regarding People, Transportation and Destination. Furthermore, it can provide evidence regarding accessibility measures that are suitable for transportation planning for elderly people.

• Corporate Authors:

  Japan Society of Civil Engineers

  1-chome, Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan  160-0004
• Authors:
  • Bounta, Onnavong
  • Kawaguchi, Hirohisa
  • Nitta, Yasutsugu
• Conference:
  • 10th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People
  • Location: Hamamatsu , Japan
  • Date: 2004-5-23 to 2004-5-26
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transed 2004. Universal Transportation and Road Design: Strategies for Success

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Aged; Bus transportation; Geographic information systems; Mobility; Mode choice; Paratransit services; Public transit; Transit operating agencies; Trip length
• Identifier Terms: Transed
• Uncontrolled Terms: Social welfare
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01130380
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 2009 9:28AM