关键词: 私家车, 通勤, 居住空间, 交通, 大连市

Abstract: The development of transportation system is a major inducing means for urban growth. The increase of the private cars has changed the traffic structure. It has strengthened the space accessibility, and improved the transport capacity.Long distance is never an obstacle, which changes people’s house purchasing mind and gradually induces people, commercial centers and related industries to move to the edge of a city and influences the pattern and scale of the residential space. Finally it makes the residential area become larger and broader.Research on private cars’ influence on residential space based on residents’ travel behavior has expanded the research field in the traffic and land-use relationship from the view of private transport means.This research has important meanings in guiding urban planning which integrates urban residential area with transportation. Taking Dalian as an example, this paper researches the private cars’ impact on the residential space based on the residents’ travel behavior between jobs and housing. Through survey of private cars’ quantity, the residents’ travel behavior and the partiality of housing location, the information of residents’ social attributes, behavioral space and psychology partiality is acquired. and then simulation and analysis are done using the GIS technology.The result shows, residents’ car-purchasing behaviors have certain relevance with jobs-housing spatial distribution situation. Because of the unharmoniousness between jobs and housing in the expansion area, travel inconvenience is the major problem, the long commuting distance and time is the only factor which reduces the residents’ evaluation to the urban expansion area. This factor can only be improved through the improvement of the transportation means and traffic routes.The increase of the private cars has strengthened the convenience and swiftness. Five kilometers away from the city centre, the increase of the number of the private cars with the further expansion of the residential space make the whole scale of the city expand through the effect of circular and accumulation. Meanwhile, the statistic software is used to set up geographical model and analyze private cars’ impact on the expansion of residential space. The calculation indicates that of the various kinds of influencing factors, private cars’ contribution rate reaches 2.14% in average during 1990 to 2004.

Key words: private cars, travel, transportation, residential space, Dalian