Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modem Urban Traffic Technologies, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jul 19;11:1213499. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1213499. eCollection 2023.
With the increase in aging populations worldwide, the travel well-being of the elders has gained attention. The objective of this study is to examine the nonlinear relationships between the well-being of the older people in China and factors associated with travel and health.
Based on the data collected in China, combined embedded feature selection and decision tree built by Gini index were utilized to screen for influential factors and to determine the importance of the features selected. Tamhane's T2 was used to study the differences in the important factors among older people with different levels of travel well-being.
This study found that the travel well-being of older adults depends mainly on accessibility to public places, such as schools and medical facilities, and the availability of bus services. Out of expectation, the most important influential factor of travel well-being of older people is the distance from home to high school. This is related to the traditional Chinese concept of education. In addition, it was found that the body mass index is more important than self-perceived health as an influence factor of travel well-being of the elders in China. Social skills are important factors too.
This study investigated various health-related and travel-related factors and their impacts on the travel well-being of older adults Chinese with the overall goal to improve the quality of life of the elders in China. The findings may provide a theoretical basis for the implementation of various transportation management and urban planning and design -related policies to improve the travel well-being of older adults in China.
随着全球老龄化人口的增加，老年人的出行幸福感受到关注。本研究旨在探讨中国老年人幸福感与出行和健康相关因素之间的非线性关系。
本研究基于中国的数据，结合嵌入特征选择和基尼指数构建的决策树，筛选出影响因素，并确定所选特征的重要性。采用 Tamhane 的 T2 检验来研究不同出行幸福感水平的老年人之间重要因素的差异。
本研究发现，老年人的出行幸福感主要取决于公共场所（如学校和医疗机构）的可达性和公共汽车服务的可用性。出人意料的是，影响老年人出行幸福感的最重要因素是从家到高中的距离。这与中国传统的教育观念有关。此外，研究还发现，在中国，身体质量指数比自我感知健康更能影响老年人的出行幸福感。社交能力也是重要因素。
本研究调查了各种与健康和出行相关的因素及其对中国老年人出行幸福感的影响，目的是提高中国老年人的生活质量。研究结果可能为实施各种交通管理和城市规划设计相关政策提供理论依据，以提高中国老年人的出行幸福感。
