A Research on Relationship between Land Use and Transportation to Reduce the Environmental Burden

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The purpose of this study is to decrease the environmental burden on transportation field in terms of city planning. The correspondence of the land use and transportation has researched at the macro level in 2003, and the relationship between land use and transportation at the site level in 2004. And existing studies at home and overseas were systematized in fiscal 2005. Especially, how to integrate land use and transportation in the cities was systematically reviewed from a viewpoint of the decrease of the environmental burden. The outline on the result of the research is shown in the following five points.(1)Summary of relationship between land use and transportation at the macro level.Interrelation between land use and transportation was examined at the metropolitan area. The current state of the cities in Japan was clarified by comparing the cities in developed countries.(2)Summary of relationship between land use and transportation at the micro level.For environmental assessment by using traffic simulation, the directionality about the correspondence of land use and transportation was examined at the district areas.(3)Review of existing studies in overseas on the leading location of large-scale developmentRecent trend of regulation by the law was reviewed, and how to control land use correctly from a viewpoint of transportation was considered.(4)The politics of Compact City and Sustainable CityKagoshima City was focused as a current analysis, and various urban politics in this study about sustainable city were systematized.(5)The integration of land use and transportation under the society of decreasing populationHow we will cope with the change of community structure such as aging society was referred as the future prospect.