An empirical research about the sustainability of local transport and mobility support in shrinking population society

通过修改公共交通法废除供需调节规则，导致当地火车和公共汽车的减少/停止。因此，在面临老龄化和人口减少的地方省份，车辆的尺寸从火车到公共汽车，再到出租车越来越小。随着需求出租车和自愿拼车等所谓的非常规交通服务的出现，本研究以农村地区的社区交通为研究对象，探讨了社区与地方政府合作的时代和过程：（1）公共交通取消后请愿运动的发展与逻辑，（2）放松管制对地方政府的影响和社区交通的社会实验，（3）行政管理的逻辑及其向社区交通制度化的组织变革，（四）居民对社区交通成本分担的认同逻辑。通过描述和分析，本研究旨在明确“新公共性”的含义，它涉及社区和地方政府的互补解决。

The abolition of supply-and-demand adjustment regulation by revisions of public transport act leads to decrease/discontinuance of local trains and buses. As a result, in local provinces which are faced with aging and decreasing of the population, the size of vehicle is getting smaller from trains into buses, then into taxis. There come to be seen so-called unconventional transport services such as demand taxis and voluntary car pools.This research takes up community transport in rural area, and argues the epoch and process of collaboration between community and local government as follows : (1) the development and logic of petition movement after the abolition of public transport, (2) the impact of deregulation to local government and the social experiment of community transport, (3) the logic of administration and its organizational change towards institutionalizing community transport, (4) the logic of agreement among residents about cost sharing for community transport. Through the description and analysis, this research aims to make clear the meaning of 'new publicness,' which involves the complementary solution by both community and local government.