作为一种研究方法,生命历程提供了一个概念框架旨在消弭宏观社会发展和个体生命成长之间的鸿沟,作为一种分析视角,生命历程展示了年龄在居民日常出行特征中所起到的重要作用。本文以广州市居民出行日志调查资料为基础,分析处于不同生命历程阶段中广州市居民的日常行为特征。研究结果表明,广州市居民的出行距离、花费时间和出行起始时间三个方面呈现出较为明显的生命历程特征,其中出现距离和花费时间随年龄的变化呈现出明显的“M”型曲线特征。在此基础上,文章以结婚和生小孩两个家庭性节点事件和住房体制改革等社会性节点事件为例,对出行生命历程的原因进行初步探讨。
Although some researchers have recognized the importance of life course factors (ages, family structures, social roles, etc.,) in residents' daily activities, researches based on life course are still inadequate theoretically and empirically. Scholars tend to emphasize the rhythm of a day or a week, but studies in the longer time scales are relatively weak. As the field of space-time research has received wide attention in past decades, GIS has been largely adapted as a tool for analyzing time-space data. In this context time geography has been a significant perspective for analyzing human behavior and movement in time-space. This paper analyzes human behavior with time geography methods and GIS platform from the perspective of life course. Using three dimensional space-time paths on GIS platform, this paper makes up problems of the fragmenta- tion of space and time in behavior study. This paper compensates for the split between different activities with complete chains of travel. At the same time this paper uses cross section data at different ages to study the life course regularity. The purpose of this article is to analysis the life course impact in residents' daily life. The dates come from a household survey on peoples' daily activities and travel logs in Guangzhou, China. The characteristics of residents' daily travel in different ages are showed. The research results show that the Guangzhou residents travel distance, travel time and start time these three aspects present the evident characteristics of life course. The travel distance and time show the characteristics of obvious "M" type curve along with the age changing.