Interaction of activity involvement and recreational location selection behavior in Lowland City:A case study of public parks in Saga City,Japan

作     者：IAMTRAKUL Pawinee TEKNOMO Kardi GE Jian HOKAO Kazunori 

作者机构：Department of Civil Engineering Saga University Saga 840-8502 Japan Institute of Lowland Technology Saga University Saga 840-8502 Japan Department of Architecture Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310058 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）)

年 卷 期：2005年第6卷第8期

页      面：900-906页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 08[工学] 081303[工学-城市规划与设计(含：风景园林规划与设计）] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 0834[工学-风景园林学（可授工学、农学学位）] 

主　　题：城市规划 公园设计 生活质量 环境评估 

摘      要：Public parks provide many benefits to the community as the representatives of green area. The allocation of public places plays an extremely important role in the daily lives of inhabitants especially for recreational use that could enhance the quality of life of residents in the vicinity. To understand park users’ behavior is one of the most important prerequisites for as-sessing the participation in public service from the park users’ point of view. The pattern of park utilization on location and activity selection are important elements in behavioral study, while the public parks topograph may also influence the typical user’s be-havior. Questionnaire survey on park utilization was used to investigate the interaction between activity involvement and recrea-tional location with the use of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) model. The study found that public park users’ behavior is influenced not only by social characteristics but also by the recreational activities and their specific location characteristics. We found that about 45 percent of park visitors are local residents living within a radius of 3 km preferred travel to parks near their residential area. This implies that location selection behavior is correlated with travel distance, travel time and travel cost. Visit frequencies and on site expenditures reflect the recreation behavior for different type of activities. The overall information can be usefully applied by decision makers to launch appropriate public policy in consistence with the useful results of this study.