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Title Neighborhood Travel Mode Choice in Apartment-Dominated Environments - Evidence from the Seoul Metropolitan Area
Authors 진창종(Jin, Changjong); 이제승(Lee, Jae Seung)
DOI https://doi.org/10.38195/judik.2026.02.27.1.59
Page pp.59-78
ISSN 15980650
Keywords 아파트; 개발사업; 모더니즘 도시계획; 근린 통행 수단선택; 보행; 승용차통행; 비율형 로짓모형 Apartment; New Town; Modernist Urban Planning; Neighborhood Travel Mode Choice; Walking; Private Car Travel; Fractional Logistic Regression
Abstract This study examines neighborhood travel mode choice in apartment-dominated environments shaped by modernist urban planning principles, including new town development projects. Using aggregated data from 1,088 administrative districts in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, a fractional logistic regression model analyzes the effects of apartment housing, new towns, urban?suburban context, neighborhood environmental characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and their interactions on neighborhood travel mode shares (walking & cycling vs. private car). The results show that urban areas are positively associated with walking & cycling, while apartment housing exhibits context-dependent effects, with a negative association in urban areas and a positive association in suburban areas. Public transport use demonstrates statistically significant interaction effects with apartment proportion and development projects, revealing a negative relationship between public transport use and walking & cycling in development project areas, suggesting car-oriented planning. By extending the analysis beyond Seoul to the broader metropolitan region, this study provides macro-level empirical evidence on the relationship between apartment-dominated environments and neighborhood walking, offering implications for promoting walkable residential planning.