Car-centered transportation system have caused social problems such as air pollution, carbon emission, traffic congestions, adult disease, and others. Especially, mobility degradation of urban traffic and environment deterioration caused by an increas...
Car-centered transportation system have caused social problems such as air pollution, carbon emission, traffic congestions, adult disease, and others. Especially, mobility degradation of urban traffic and environment deterioration caused by an increasing number of vehicles and incongruity of transport systems are reaching a serious level.
Recently, in order to solve these problems, there are heated discussions about “TOD” in which centered on station influence area, a major nodal point for people who use transportation, as a part of fundamental policy switching to raise the demand of public transportation. In addition, as energy crisis is magnified as an issue, a new paradigm, “low-carbon green growth”, comes to the fore in Korea.
Accordingly, vitalizing green transportation such as walking and cycling which are environmentally friendly transportation that control the demand of cars and maintain the function of traffic have been suggested as a one of the national strategies. As the idea of TOD that centered on station influence area which is a nodal point of transportation, is introduced in the country, the importance of green transportation has been more emphasized and status of walking and cycling as a means of transportation has upraised. Many industrialized countries, already, have pushed forward with the vitalization of using green transportation, and have been promoting established policy program about walking and cycling at national level. Also in Korea, we established related law from in the early 1990s and had accomplished enormous achievements about walking and cycling. However, since road facilities and structures had planned and built with car as the center without concerning actual users, pedestrians and people who rides a cycling, this fact blocked the vitalization of using green transportation. Therefore, to increase the demand of public transport utilization in station influence area, we urgently need research about green transportations(walking and cycling) which in charge of connection and accessibility of mainliner along with development of station influence area.
This study classifies the type of urban fabric about 206 station influence areas where the area within 500m radius of Gyeonggi-do are excluded among 278 station influence areas which are currently in operation and also focuses on finding the influencing relationship of accessibility of green transportation.
This research aims to understanding the concept of station centered life zone which centered on railway station influence area in Seoul City and focuses on urban tissue in the respect of urban structure as a influencing factor of accessibility to the station. Especially, this research shows the empirical analyzation about the effect relationship between the accessibility of green transportation which are walking and cycling, as the pivot concept of station centered life zone and TOD integrated plan characteristic of station influence area.
Accordingly, to analyze the influencing relationship of accessibility of green transportation(walking and cycling) by the type of urban fabric, we analyzed the correlation of indicators. In addidtion, by comparing connection model with a stand-alone model of pedestrian access and cycling accessibility, we investigated the causal relationship between green transportation and urban density of station influence area by the type of urban fabric and land-use characteristics, centered on structural model which has explanatory power
The research is considered an effective study as a respect of social demand since this study can be actually used to recent discussion issues in Seoul City such as reorganization of urban fabric centered on life zone, political and planned issues about radical land use in station influence area, housing regeneration issues and especially walking and public transportation-only districts.