PARENT SESSION
Special Session 7: Social capacity development for environmental management: International cooperation and ecological solution
Organized by: S HONG and N NAKAGOSHI
Monday, August 8, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Exhibit Hall 210a-e, Level 2, Palais des congrès de Montréal
Comparative analysis of interaction between land use and transportation in developing countries.
Fujiwara, Akimasa*,1, Senbil, Metin1, Zhang, Junyi1, 1 Transportation Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
ABSTRACT- Urban sprawl, low-density residential areas usually cause increased dependency on trip modes other than walk and cycling, especially on automobile in urban areas. These phenomena are mostly seen in the North American and Australian cities, and to a certain degree, in the European cities. Cities of the developed countries in the Asia are more densely populated, and are more reliant on public transportation systems. So there is not much consistency in the developed world in terms of land uses and transportation interactions. It might be expected that, ceteris paribus, if cities in the developing world develop in the same fashion as today's developed cities, dependency on motorized transport might be different similar to the same difference observed among developed cities of today; therefore, similar inconsistency should be observed in the future because of the differences in the urban land uses and the transportation systems in the cities of the developing world. In this respect, a comparative analysis is needed to assess the land use and transportation interactions in the cities of the developing countries. To do so, we establish a structural equation model with latent variables, which represents the interaction between land use and transportation, to compare 11 developing cities by using person-trip data collected by Japan International Cooperation Agency. The models are estimated separately for each of the eleven cities, which are Tripoli, Lebanon; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Damascus, Syria; Manila, Philippines; Chengdu, China; Managua, Nicaragua; Belem, Brazil; Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malesia.
Key words: interaction of land use and transportation, developing countries, comparative analysis, person-trip data