Journal of Transport & Health 14 (2019) 100634

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Poster Abstracts#2521
TRAFFIC AND PARKING STUDY OF STATION ROAD, VALSAD
Utsav Domadia 1, Dhaval Barot 2. 1 University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas; 2 Government Engineering College, Valsad, Gujarat, India
Background: With the increasing number of vehicles and mobility facilities, trafﬁc and parking problems are ubiquitous in urban areas. Valsad is asituated in the southern part of Gujarat state, India. Valsad railway station is connected by India Railway services with the major cities namelySurat, Ahmedabad in North and Mumbai in South. During peak hours when the train arrives or departs, this road is heavily congested. Trafﬁc isinterrupted as nearby shop visitors park vehicles on the roadway as a result of inadequate parking facilities. Footpath encroachment by parked
vehicles decreases pedestrian safety. The station road is one of the high-volume roads in Valsad in terms of vehicular and pedestrian trafﬁc. Theemissions from vehicles result in high air pollution due to the improper on-street parking facility. Regular road cleaning is also difﬁcult to execute.
A parking solution is needed.
Methods: A parking study was conducted on Station Road to determine parking demand and parking characteristics. A parking survey was run forthree days at station road. Valsad. License Plate method (IRC 12) was used to assess on-street parking. The road was divided into 19 different
segments for accurate and rapid data collection. In the analyses, parking accumulation, volume, load, duration, turnover and parking index werecalculated.
Result: Peak hour parking demand for two-wheeler, car, auto-rickshaw and Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) was 281, 9, 22 and 3 respectively.
Conclusion: Based on peak parking demand, angled on-street parking using odd-even parking system and parking meters can be introduced to improvethe design and proper execution of parking policy. Footpath facility can be regulated with regular cleaning and maintenance to address pedestriansafety and public health concerns.
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THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION FOR DRIVING AND TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT SATISFACTION ON TRAVELBEHAVIOUR AND BMI: NATIONWIDE PERSON TRIP SURVEY IN JAPANKunihiro Fumoto 1, Ayako Taniguchi 2. 1 University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan;
2

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Background: Lifestyle-related diseases account for 30% of increases in medical expenditure in Japan. In this study, we used the body mass index (BMI)
as a health index to investigate how people’s perceptions affect their travel behaviour and BMI.
Methods: Data from the 2015 Japanese Nationwide Person Trip Survey were used to investigate the daily travel behaviour of people living in 70
Japanese cities (N¼7,474). The participants were also requested to rate their satisfaction with their transport environment (13 items), reasons fordriving a car (motivation for driving, four indices), travel behaviour (annual frequency of use of six travel modes), and BMI. We used structural
equation modelling (SEM) to analyses how satisfaction with the transport environment and motivation for driving affect travel behaviour and BMI, andnon-signiﬁcant variables were deleted.
Results: In the case of men, BMI was found to increase with the annual frequency of car driving (p <0.001) and bus use (p ¼ 0.028) and decrease withannual walking frequency (p <0.001). A higher annual frequency of driving was associated with higher satisfaction with car usability (p <0.001andpunctuality of bus services (p <0.001), and lower satisfaction with the number of bus services (p <0.001) and distance to the nearest railway station (p¼ .008). Furthermore, lower annual driving frequencies were associated with living outside the three major metropolitan areas and listing “Driving a
car is convenient” or “I have no other choice but to use a car” as motivations for driving (p <0.001for all relationships). Conversely, in the case ofwomen, BMI was found to increase with decreasing the annual frequency of railway use (p ¼0 .009), higher satisfaction with car usability (p ¼ 0.032)
and the inclusion of “I like driving” as a motivation for driving (p ¼ 0.012). The annual frequency of railway use increases with satisfaction with thedistance to the nearest railway station (p ¼ 0.006) and the number of rail services (p ¼ 0.002), and lower satisfaction with car usability (p <0.001) andpunctuality of bus services (p <0.001). We also found that lower annual frequencies of railway use are associated with living outside the three major
metropolitan areas and the listing of “Driving a car is convenient”, “I like driving” or “I have no other choice but to use a car” as motivations for driving(p <0.001for all relation).
Conclusions: According to our results, the motivation for driving and satisfaction with the transport environment affect both travel behaviour and BMI.

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