The Research Of Communities’ Accessibility And Residents’ Travel Behavior

With the development of social economy and over urbanization, challenges haveappeared.In recent years, the communities’environment and residents’ travel behaviourhave beenwidely noted.By using the theory of space syntax, this paper has made thequantitative analysis on Hefei’s communities with the purpose of accessibility research.Besides, the differences of residents’ travel behavior in recent years have been studiedbased on the data collected in2010as well as2013. What is more, with the informationof residents’ travel behavior, the relationships between traveler’s attribute and travelbehavior have been found out.The findings are as below.First of all, with the theory of space syntax we find that,when the axes of space are orthogonal, the space will easier to collect the stream ofpeople. And a higher degree of axis network will build a higher guidance quality. Also, acommunity with higher density of axes is easily recognizable. Second, after the analysisof residents travel behavior, an appearance that residents travel frequency has risenduring these years comes out. And also, the usage of private vehicle has increased.Third, when doing the research about the relationship between travel behavior andresidents attributes, we find that people with higher income trend to use non-publictransport when going to work.And females are more likely to use public transport to goto the hospital. Males have a higher frequency to do exercise. What is more, when go toshopping places, more males prefer walking.Based on the research, some main findings have been summarized as well as thesuggestions about communities’ public service facilities. Hopefully, the claims andimplications could guide the future planning of communities.