Geographical Study on Regional Changes due to the Motorization in East Japan

本研究的目的是明确机动化对区域构成要素的影响。在这种背景下，日本的机动化以更快的速度向全国全面渗透。它反映在物理和普通方面，如许多有限的高速公路系统的新建设和停车场的整合。当然，这与区域各方面的发展密切相关。为了解决上述研究目的，本文采用了明确机动化对区域要素的真实的影响，并对各要素的影响强度进行排序的方法，选取东日本样本地区，在宏观、中观三个区域尺度上进行研究。和微型的。从研究中获得的许多发现如下。(1)通过对大尺度区域之一的东北地区的汽车流进行地域系统分析，发现汽车数量的增加导致平均出行距离的相对减少，这对城市中心功能的升级和相互独立性的提高起到了重要作用。(2)根据因子分析和聚类分析的结果，提取了决定松本盆地区域性的主要因素，在以松本市为中心的商品流通圈内，城市化、工业化和机动化等新的特征明显取代了最初与传统特征相关的区域性。(3)在山形县的小番泽市和茨木县的羽崎町，机动化带来的微观区域、商品流通范围和居住地域范围的极大扩展，进一步成为刺激居住模式创新的因素。

The aim of this study is to make clear the impact of motorization on the composite elements of region. In this context, the motorization of Japan has shown its complete penetration throughout countr with higher pace. It is reflected in both physical and ordinary facets such as new construction of many limited expressway system and consolidation of the parking lots. Definitely, this is closely interrelated with the development of various aspects of region. To solve the study aim mentioned above, we adopt a method that the real impact of motorization on the regional elements is clarified and the intensity of the impact is ranked for each element, doing our research on sample areas of East Japan, which are selected for three regional scales: macro, meso. and micro ones. Many findings from the study are obtained as the following.(1) Through analyzing the regional system based on the automobile flows of Tohoku district, one of macro-scale regions, the increase of number of automobile brings about relative decrease of average trip length, which, in turn, acts an important role in grading up the function of urban centers and the independency of each other.(2) According to the outcomes of factor and cluster analyses to extract major elements defining the regionality of the Matsumoto basin, a meso-scale region, within the commodity flows sphere around Matsumoto city the regionality initially associated with traditional features has been obviously replaced by new currency of urbanization, industrialization, and motorization as the definition factors.(3) In Obanazawa city of Yamagata prefecture and Hazaki-machi of Ibaraki prefecture, micro-scale regions, the greate expansion of commodity flows sphere and areal extent of living are given by motorization, which further become to stimulate the innovation of housing pattern.