Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1122109 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2012 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

There are many removed, depopulated aging areas in Japan, including isolated islands. Habitants are usually under poor transportation condition. One of the way to solve this problem is to improve the transportation service. Under this poor situation, it often seems that habitants combine two or three activities in a day. The purpose of this study is to know how people choose their activities, depending on given transportation service. This study pick up two activities of regular medical treatment and shopping that are main purpose of daily trip for elderly person in these place, and made a model for people's behavior when choosing their activity time and activity pattern. Then, we calibrated this model to observed depopulated place, and got a good fitness.

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