A COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SUBURBAN RESIDENTS' TRAVEL BEHAVIOR ON WEEKDAYS UNDER DIFFERENT SUBURBANIZATION MODES:A CASE ANALYSIS OF BEIJING AND GUANGZHOU

While a number of studies have shed light on the process, mechanism, and spatial outcomes of suburbanization in Chinese cities, few of them focused on suburban residents' daily lives and thus failed to make sense of how suburbanization may impact on resident's quality of life. On the other hand, the suburbanization in urban China is quite different and much more complicated than that in Western cities as it was initiated by governments in 1980 s while driven by market in last the decades, and influenced by various housing policies in different cities of China, which resulted in a variety of suburbanization modes and suburban space. This paper reports an attempt to address the impacts of different suburbanization modes on residents' daily lives through a comparative studies of suburban residents' travel behavior under the background of different residential suburbanization modes, namely government-oriented mode and market-oriented mode. We carry out a case analysis of two typical communities in Beijing and Guangzhou resulting from the activitytravel diary surveys in two cities in 2007, from the perspective of trip frequency, trip distribution, temporal rhythms and modes of transport. The result shows that travel behavior of two cases shares similarities with low tour frequency, long commute distances, inner-city-oriented commute directions, and high level of motorization, and an average of 1.7 hours per day spent on trips, which reflects the constrains of jobs-housing mismatch on residents' travel behavior.