Abstract
As the automobilization process gets matured, social problems such as energy consumption increase and exclusive land occupation by car-related facilities has become as serious as noise and air pollution caused by automobilc traffic. Transportation policies are, therefore, currently investigated from more comprehensive urban perspectives including environmental ones. This paper attempts to identify characteristic variables which affect transportation mode choice of the shopping trip, based on questionnaire survey analysis in Kokubunji City and Suginami Ward, Tokyo Metropolitan Region. Environment consideration factors are extracted from principal component analysis, and spatial factors are identified through quantification method II analysis. The following results are found. Firstly, environment consideration affect people's car usage activities rather than car possession in Kokubunji City. Secondly, living near the station and car usage, car possession have a mutual relation.
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