Introduction to the Paper (Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan)
[November 2017]
The paper is published in the Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan [Volume 52 (2017) Issue 3], and the following research by doctoral student, Mr. Dantsuji, has been published.
Below is a brief report from Mr. Dantsuji.
A research paper on understanding the characteristics of tourist circulation behavior using Wi-Fi packet sensors, conducted as part of activities related to the “urban development of the Hasedera Monzenmachi neighborhood” in collaboration with the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, Waseda University since July 2016, has been published in the Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan. The research was conducted in collaboration with Professor Emeritus Mitsuyuki Asano, an advisor to the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies of Waseda University, and Yoshitatsu Sugishita, a second-year doctoral student in the Asakura Laboratory. We are grateful for the cooperation of the people in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture, and of the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, Waseda University, including Professor Shigeru Sato and Research Fellow Hajime Ohki. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to them.
Dantsuji
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Analysis of the Properties of Tourists’ Dwell Time using Wi-Fi Packet Data: A Case Study of the Approach to Hase-dera Temple
Takao Dantsuji, Kashin Sugishita, Daisuke Fukuda, Mitsuyuki Asano
Understanding tourist behavior in sightseeing areas is quite important to consider policy measures. Traditionally, the questionnaire survey has been conducted to analyze the tourist behavior. However, due to high cost and the heterogeneity of the sample, such survey has been gradually limited. This study analyzes the tourist behavior using Wi-Fi scanner which captures the probe request from electronic devices such as smartphones, which is an alternative way to the questionnaire survey due to the much lower cost. We take Hase area where Hase-dera Temple is located as a case study and it is found that the dwell time of the tourists who accessed with different transportation modes to Hase area is clearly different, that is, the dwell time of the tourist who take trains is longer than that of the tourists who drive. Moreover, the difference property of dwell time between the tourists at the morning and afternoon can be found.
