The initiation of new town projects and the ongoing residential suburbanization within the Greater Seoul Metropolitan City Area entail the relocation of populations from Seoul to surrounding areas. The rearrangement of populations alongside the increa...
The initiation of new town projects and the ongoing residential suburbanization within the Greater Seoul Metropolitan City Area entail the relocation of populations from Seoul to surrounding areas. The rearrangement of populations alongside the increase of manufacturing firms has caused significant changes in commuting patterns and regional structures at once. Whereas the configuration of person trips generated in 1990 identifies Seoul’s densely populated residential areas as major departing points, it was the new-town districts in the outskirt that emerged as the principal providers of commuting students and workers in 2000. With respect to the pulled trips, Jung-gu turned out to be the very place most frequently visited in 1990 and, in ten years, the destination changed to Gangnam-gu. The rearrangement of trip patterns during the decade shaped up new inter-region linkage systems in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan City Area. Factor analysis draws five common factors in 1990 and the number increases to six in 2000 with the addition of a supplementary commuting zone from new towns to Seoul. In all, Seoul Metropolitan Area’s commuting comes to take place in more complicated ways and within a wider bound in the year 2000 than was the case ten years before, which signals the declining functional position of the capital city in the Greater Metropolitan Area.