Built Environment Impacts on Rural Residents’ Daily Travel Satisfaction

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Yibin Ao¹  Yuting Zhang²  Yan Wang³  Tong Wang⁴  Haimei Li⁵  Yunfeng Chen⁶ 

[1]College of Environment and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China

[2]Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College, Chengdu, China

[3]Department of Engineering Management, Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Chengdu, China

[4]Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

[5]Humanities and Law School, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China

[6]Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, Lafayette, LA, United States

关键词: travel preference;    travel satisfaction;    rural China;    travel mode;    built environment;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fevo.2022.931118

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The rapid urbanization in China urges scholars to investigate the impacts of built environment on the level of travel satisfaction of rural residents to improve their quality of life and make planning exercises more human-centric. This study samples six villages out of the 25 top rural areas in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, as the research object and constructs a structural equation model to explore the direct and indirect impacts of the built environment on daily travel satisfaction of rural residents. The research finds that building density (0.609), road density (0.569), the number of accessible markets (0.314), and private car ownership (0.02) have significant positive impacts on travel satisfaction. Public transport (−0.063) has a direct negative impact on travel satisfaction. Consequently, in order to further improve travel satisfaction, construction departments and rural planners should improve the building and road densities of new rural areas and increase the number of accessible markets. The convenience of rural public transport services also needs improvement.

【 授权许可】

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