no124-131

[129] Geographical Changes in Municipal Adjacency and Possibility of Wide-Area Remote Cooperation

○Keisuke TAMIYA¹, Ren KAWANABE², Tsutomu SUZUKI², Yoshiaki OHSAWA² (1. PASCO CORPORATION, 2. University of Tsukuba)

Keywords:Municipal boundary, Municipalities merger, Municipal adjacency, Multi-municipal cooperation, Digitization

This study shows that the geographical adjacency between municipalities changed significantly after Heisei Great municipalities merge. Moreover, the following three points were revealed numerically. First, Heisei Great municipalities merge caused friction in existing fire administrations, which took time to be solved. Second, a lack of cases of cross-prefecture mergers limited options as to which municipalities to choose. Finally, the wide-area remote cooperation which does not relate to the continuity of places contributes to increase options of multi-municipal cooperation by use of digitization.