Study On Spatial Environment Of The Elderly's Daily Shopping Behavior In Dalian City

At present,China's aging population situation is more and more serious,is gradually to the depth of an aging society,the elderly has become a very large number of groups in the society,and because the old body function decline,with the increase of sensitivity to the living environment and the add along with the social development in our country there are more and more empty nest elderly,protect the elderly groups can spend their twilight years in the comfortable life environment became a difficult task.With the transformation of social identity and lifestyle of the elderly,the importance of community environment to the elderly is increasingly prominent,and the research on the living environment of the elderly has received more and more attention.However,with the development of the society,the new requirements of the elderly on the living environment are out of touch with the existing community environment,and the current spatial environment planning standards are not adaptable to the actual demands of the elderly.Shopping activities are one of the main daily travel activities of the elderly.The pleasant space environment can improve the travel quality of the elderly and has a direct impact on the quality of life of the elderly.According to the existing literature research,the daily shopping behavior of the elderly is mostly the study of travel characteristics or behavioral decisions,while the research on the daily shopping travel space environment of the elderly is less and more from a single level.The research on the impact of specific spatial environment elements on the daily shopping travel of the elderly is insufficient.In the actual investigation,it is found that the daily shopping trips of the elderly in the community of dalian city often have poor accessibility of daily shopping facilities,and some spatial elements in the travel environment affect the trips of the elderly.Therefore,this study starts from the behavior of elderly People's Daily shopping,explores the environmental factors affecting their daily shopping trips,and conducts an empirical investigation on the space environment of daily shopping trips of elderly people in typical communities of dalian city,hoping to propose suggestions for the optimization of the space environment of daily shopping trips of elderly people.This study as the research subject in the elderly,the elderly daily shopping travel space environment as the research object,based on the characteristics of the elderly daily shopping travel community center for space environment research and research methods are literaturereview,questionnaire survey and interviews,the GIS geospatial information collection,correlation analysis,UNA urban space network analysis,simulation,path.First,the literature related to this study was sorted out.Secondly,the characteristics of typical community elderly daily shopping trip in dalian is analyzed,and according to the old routine shopping trip with satisfaction score correlation analysis of the space environment factors,find out significant impact on the elderly daily shopping travel the space environment factors,respectively,the amount and type of walking distance,facilities,convenient degree of paths,convenient degree,path of outdoor steps,crossing the street,road traffic safety and health,parking encroachments,a total of eight space environmental factors;Thirdly,based on the exploration of the spatial environment factors that significantly affect the daily shopping trips of the elderly,the empirical investigation and analysis on the accessibility,convenience,safety and comfort of the daily shopping trips of the elderly in typical communities located in different locations of dalian city were carried out.Finally,the paper summarizes the main spatial environment factors that influence the daily shopping trips of the elderly in the community.Based on the literature research and empirical investigation,the paper puts forward optimization Suggestions for improving the spatial environment of the elderly's daily shopping trips from three aspects,namely,the layout of commercial facilities,the road system and the walking environment.It is hoped that it can provide a reference for future related studies and offer some valuable Suggestions for improving the living environment of the elderly.