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This study aims to clarify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home range. The home range is the area that individuals traverse in conducting their daily activities, such as working and shopping. In Japan, the central government declared the first state of emergency in April 2020. This study analyzed the panel data for mobile phone GPS location history from April 2019 to April 2020 in Ibaraki City, Osaka Metropolitan area. The study applied the minimum convex polygon method to analyze the data. The results show that the home range decreased significantly between April 2019 and April 2020. Specifically, the home range in 2020 decreased to approximately 50% of that in 2019 because of COVID-19 infection control measures, preventing people from traveling far from their homes and only allowing them to step outside for the bare minimum of daily activities and necessities. The results suggest that the emergency reduced people’s home ranges to the neighborhood scale. Therefore, it is necessary to consider designing new walkable neighborhood environments after the COVID-19 pandemic era.
Haruka Kato; Atsushi Takizawa; Daisuke Matsushita. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Home Range in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8974 .
AMA StyleHaruka Kato, Atsushi Takizawa, Daisuke Matsushita. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Home Range in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8974.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHaruka Kato; Atsushi Takizawa; Daisuke Matsushita. 2021. "Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Home Range in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8974.
The purpose of this study was to identify the walkable streets where traffic behavior changed according to each residential cluster during the COVID-19 pandemic. By elucidating the changes, it is possible to identify streets that should be redesigned following the changes in traffic behavior in relation to human mobility. This study analyzed Ibaraki City, a suburban city located in the Osaka Metropolitan Area. The analysis compared the panel data of the GPS Location History for April 2020 and April 2019. The analysis method used was Empirical Bayesian kriging. The results show that the speed significantly increased in the dense, sprawl, mountain, and old NT clusters. It was also found that the number of cyclists increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results suggest a need to design walkable streets according to each residential cluster for the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. For example, some car lanes need to be converted to bike lanes in the main neighborhood to create walkable streets in the clusters.
Haruka Kato; Daisuke Matsushita. Changes in Walkable Streets during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7442 .
AMA StyleHaruka Kato, Daisuke Matsushita. Changes in Walkable Streets during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7442.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHaruka Kato; Daisuke Matsushita. 2021. "Changes in Walkable Streets during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Suburban City in the Osaka Metropolitan Area." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7442.
Two groups of hedonic price models were constructed, one for quaint old private home rentals and the other for non‐quaint old private home rentals. In the case of quaint old private home rentals, a higher presence of traditional design corresponded to higher room rates. In the case of non‐quaint old private home rentals, closer distances to a train station and higher roadside land prices corresponded to higher room rates. A potential market was found for private home rentals of homes converted from old houses that had lost their market value as residences.
Rei Kondo; Daisuke Matsushita. Correlation between building attributes and room rates for private home rentals converted from quaint old houses in Osaka City through a hedonic approach. JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW 2021, 4, 382 -390.
AMA StyleRei Kondo, Daisuke Matsushita. Correlation between building attributes and room rates for private home rentals converted from quaint old houses in Osaka City through a hedonic approach. JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. 2021; 4 (2):382-390.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRei Kondo; Daisuke Matsushita. 2021. "Correlation between building attributes and room rates for private home rentals converted from quaint old houses in Osaka City through a hedonic approach." JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW 4, no. 2: 382-390.