This study evaluates the compact city policy in Toyama City from the viewpoints of residents' travel behavior and access to urban services. Questionnaire survey for residents was conducted and travel behavior and difficulties of access to a supermarket and a clinic are compared between inside residential promotion area and outside the area in the location normalization plan. The analysis revealed that residents living outside the area are more likely to use automobiles but residents inside the area are also heavily depend on automobiles. Now, about 90% of the residents don't feel difficulties in access to supermarkets and clinics. The difficulties in access are related to living in areas with convenient public transportation and closeness to urban services.
This study aims to clarify factors which influence people's attitude toward settling down in rebuild residential sites and resettlement sites after the Indian Ocean Great Tsunami in 2004. Interview survey and questionnaire survey were conducted in one rebuild settlement site and two resettlement sites and result of the questionnaire survey was analyzed by using Structural Equation Modeling. From the survey, it is revealed that people's attitude toward settling down in the rebuild residential site and the resettlement sites are comparatively high. Additionally, it is clarified that the influencing factors of people's attitude toward settling down are; having satisfied occupation, having adequate village infrastructure, satisfied relationship in neighborhood and good accessibility to work place and public facilities.
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