A study on the change of the transportation demand and the mobility in the local one-elder person households communities

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26520106
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 特設分野
• Research Field: Neo-Gerontology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016); National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: HORIO Hiroyasu 東京工業大学, 大学マネジメントセンター, 教授 (70727403)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-07-18 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: モビリティ / 高齢化社会 / 単身世帯 / 買物弱者 / 医療難民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In local communities where rapid aging, depopulation and single-person households, there is a high risk that many elderly people will be cut off from shopping opportunity and medical services. For aging society, the introduction of new mobility/traffic systems have studied. To examine the conditions for the new mobility systems, this research focuses on the relation among the aging of family, the transportation demand and the choice of mobility/traffic systems with the field work and analysis of three local communities through change and diversification of mobile demand. This research clarified important items in the future mobility plan and established future survey and analysis methods.

Free Research Field

経営工学