THE INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF URBAN STRUCTURE FOCUSING ON THE SERVICE FREQUENCY OF RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS AND ON THE PEDESTRIAN SPACES TARGETING ON LOCAL CITIES

• 松中 亮治

  京都大学大学院 工学研究科都市社会工学専攻

• 大庭 哲治

  京都大学大学院 工学研究科都市社会工学専攻

• 中川 大

  京都大学大学院 工学研究科都市社会工学専攻

• 長尾 基哉

  四国旅客鉄道株式会社

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 鉄軌道利便性および歩行者空間分布を考慮した地方都市における都市構造の国際間比較

Abstract

 We compared the relationship of the compactness of urban structure, with the service frequencies of railways and tramways stations, and also with the spatial distribution of pedestrian spaces in the city center, targeting local cities in Japan, France and Germany. First, we showed that many German cities have higher proportions of populations around stations to those of cities in Japan and France. We also determined that the proximity of pedestrian spaces to railway and tramway stations was high in the order of Germany, France and Japan. Then, we compared the compactness of urban structure of local cities using two urban compactness indices, which we calculated by way of principal component analyses. The results show that German cities have more compact urban structure than cities in Japan and France. Moreover, in the case of considering the proximity of pedestrian spaces to railway and tramway stations, French cities have more compact urban structure than Japanese cities.

Journal

• Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)

  Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management) 68 (4), 242-254, 2012

  Japan Society of Civil Engineers

Keywords

• urban structure
• service frequency
• distribution of population
• pedestrian spaces

Details

• CRID: 1390282680332147712
• NII Article ID: 120005540773
• NII Article ID: 130004559631
• DOI: 10.2208/jscejipm.68.242
• ISSN: 21856540
• HANDLE: 2433/194054
• Text Lang: ja
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