- 1 - Interaction of Activity Involvement and Recreational Location Selection Behavior: A Case Study of Public Parks in Saga City, Japan PAWINEE IAMTRAKUL 1 , KARDI TEKNOMO 2 , GE JIAN 3 , HOKAO KAZUNORI 4 ( 1,4 Department of Civil Engineering, Saga University, 840-8502, Saga, Japan) ( 2 Institute of Lowland Technology, Saga University, 840-8502, Saga, Japan) ( 3 Department of Architecture, Zhejiang University, 310-058, Hangzhou, China) E-mail: 1 02ts52@edu.cc.saga-u.ac.jp, 2 kardi@cc.saga-u.ac.jp, 3 gejian@cc.saga-u.ac.jp, 4 hokao@cc.saga-u.ac.jp Abstract: Public parks provide a variety of benefits to the community as the representatives of green area. The allocation of public places plays an extremely important role in the daily lives of inhabitant especially for recreational use that could enhance the quality of life of vicinity residents. To understand park users’ behavior is one of the most important acquaintances to assess the participation in public service from users’ point of view. The pattern of park utilization on location and activity selection are imperative elements on behavioral study, however the topography of public parks may also influence to the typical user’s behavior. By the means of questionnaires survey on park utilization, the interaction between activity involvement and recreational location were investigated using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) model. The study has found out that public park users’ behavior is influenced not only by social characteristics but also by the recreational activities and their specific location characteristics. We found that about 45 percent of park visitors is local residents who live within a radius of 3 km that preferred travel to parks near by their residential area. This implies that location selection behavior is correlated with travel distance, travel time and travel cost. On the other hand, the frequencies of visit and on site expenditure reflect the recreation behavior for different type of activities. The overall information is functional for decision makers in order to launch the valuable public policy to consistence with the useful results of study. Keywords: Public Park, Park users’ behavior, Activity, Park location