Impact of regional population density on walking behavior

摘要: ABSTRACTLand use can influence walking (measured by the number of steps) and so health people. This paper presents result empirical research on impact regional population densities (inhabitants per inhabitable area) steps (all steps, both outdoors indoors). With data collected from almost 11,000 respondents in 148 Japanese regions, we estimate polynomial regression models, total being dependent variable main independent variable. Regional density significantly affects after controlling for individual household attributes. The estimated that maximizes is around 11,000 persons/km2. Increasing densities, up to levels 11,000 inhabitants/km2, could increase consequently inhabitants. elasticity 0.046–0.049 a simple log linear model without peak.