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Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesoffices). Conversely, symbolic differences within each facility category may makepeople travel beyond the closest facility, other recreational facilities, many types ofshops and not the least, workplaces. Furthermore, there are a number of featuresother than proximity that are also important when choosing among facilities.Figure 4 shows the relationship between the residents and workplaces and theamount of distance traveled for 5 workdays. It indicates that the distance fromresidence to workplace of commuters was around 40-50 km on average. Therelationship of cost of travel and distance were significantly related to each other.Moreover, the distance is less significantly related to the time duration500Amount distance from resident to downtown4003002001000-1001020304050Distance from resident to downtown (km)Figure 4: Average, expected travel distances (km.) over 5 daysSource: Survey by research team, August 20067.2 Trip Frequencies in Sub AreasTrip frequency analysis was based on data from the daily travel investigation. Inparticular, a close interdependence of activity participation could be expected.However, because of the possibility of combining several activities such asshopping at different locations and thus making several journeys in connectionwith the same activity, on average, the travel diary respondents made 3 journeysper day during the investigated week days and during the weekend. Clearly, therespondents have, on average, made 3 journeys per day. The total number of249