Abstract
In recent Japan, as there has been an increase of dual-income households and the demand for childcare facilities has especially increased especially in urban areas, childcare facilities and workers are lacking and it leads to the serious issue of children on waiting lists. Based on the background mentioned above, using statistical method, geographical information system (GIS) and public open data, scenario analysis to select transportation, the present study aimed to propose a method to quantitatively evaluate the current location of childcare facilities in Japanese urban areas. In the present study, the model of the p-median problem used to obtain the optimal location of facilities was modified, and a method to evaluate the current situation concerning the shortage or overage of childcare facilities by district was proposed. As evaluations are conducted using quantitative data such as the specialization coefficient of person trip for transportation and the distance between childcare facilities and districts, the evaluation results are also quantitative, making it an effective indicator for evaluating the locations of childcare facilities. Additionally, the specialization coefficient of person trip for transportation and the distance between childcare facilities and districts were calculated based on public open data. Therefore, the evaluation method in the present study has a high temporal reproducibility as well as spatial reproducibility.
Highlights
In recent years, there has been an increase of dual-income households in Japan, and the demand for childcare facilities has especially increased in urban areas
Based on the background mentioned above, using statistical method, geographical information system (GIS) and public open data, scenario analysis to select transportation, the present study aimed to propose a method to quantitatively evaluate the current location of childcare facilities in Japanese urban areas
Based on the above, using statistical method, geographical information system (GIS) and public open data, and focusing on the transportation of guardians to childcare facilities, the present study aims to propose a method to quantitatively evaluate the current location of childcare facilities in Japanese urban areas
Summary
There has been an increase of dual-income households in Japan, and the demand for childcare facilities has especially increased in urban areas. Based on the above, using statistical method, geographical information system (GIS) and public open data, and focusing on the transportation of guardians to childcare facilities, the present study aims to propose a method to quantitatively evaluate the current location of childcare facilities in Japanese urban areas. The present study will conduct a scenario analysis accurately reflecting the transportation of guardians to childcare facilities in order to evaluate the location of such facilities, and the evaluation results will be visualized on digital maps using GIS. Based on such results, districts lacking childcare facilities will be extracted.
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