This paper aims to analyze suburbanization processes and the effects of suburbanization on commuting patterns and average commuting distances between 1980 and 2000 in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). This paper also builds standard regression models...
This paper aims to analyze suburbanization processes and the effects of suburbanization on commuting patterns and average commuting distances between 1980 and 2000 in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA). This paper also builds standard regression models for analyzing socio-economic determinants of commuting distance with Census 2% sample data for 1980 and 2000. Analysis results from population growth rates, intra-metropolitan migration, and Gini coefficients support that the SMA has experienced significant level of suburbanization in terms of population and employment during the last two decades. An interesting finding is that suburbanization made average commuting distances longer by 2Km every ten years. Another finding is that subcenters absorb more and more commuters, while number of commuters to the CBD has declined in the 1990s, indicating the SMA's job decentralization and polycentric urban form. More importantly, regression analysis results present that intra-metropolitan migrants from Seoul to suburb made significant contributions to making average commuting distance longer.키 워 드 수도권 교외화, 인구 교외화, 직장 교외화, 통근패턴, 통근거리, 도시공간구조Keywords Commuting Pattern, Urban Spatial Structure, Suburbanization, Seoul Metropolitan Area