The International Workshop on Mobilities and Urban Policy “Domestic Migration and its Consequences: Comparisons between Japan and China” was held at Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University. This was sponsored by two research funds (Principal Researcher: Junyi Zhang): Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS (26303003: Trend of urbanization caused by rural migrant workers under the New China Urbanization Policy and its impacts on low-carbon urban development) and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (15H02271: Interdisciplinary research on policies promoting young people’s migration to and permanent residence in local cities). This workshop was also supported by the Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE). The program is show below.

Venue: IDEC, Hiroshima University

10:00 ~ 10:10 Welcome Remarks

10:10 ~ 11:10 Keynote Speech

Anming ZHANG, Prof., The University of British Columbia, Canada; Visiting Prof., IDEC, Hiroshima University, Japan

Connectivity of intercity transportation in China: A multi-modal and network approach

11:10 ~ 11:30 Studies on China (1)

Junyi ZHANG, Prof., Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Review of China’ new-type urbanization policy

11:30 ~ 12:00 Studies on China (2)

Ying JIANG, Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Rural migrant workers, future residence, and energy consumption under the influence of China’ new-type urbanization policy

12:00 ~ 13:30 Lunch time

13:30 ~ 14:00 Studies on China (3)

Linghan ZHANG, Doctoral Candidate, Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Urban and Rural Connections: A case study on rural tourism in China

14:00 ~ 15:00 Book review: Moderated by Junyi ZHANG

Life-oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy (Springer; Editor: Junyi Zhang)

15:00 ~ 15:30 Studies on Japan (1)

Junyi ZHANG, Prof., Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Domestic migration and public policies in Japan: A longitudinal analysis based on a discrete choice model with spatial context dependency

15:30 ~ 16:00 Studies on Japan (2)

Weiyan ZONG, Doctoral Candidate, Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Internal migration and life choices in Japan: An analysis based on an extension of the theory of planned behavior

16:00 ~ 16:30 Studies on Japan (3)

David PEREZ BARBOSA, Doctoral Candidate, Mobilities & Urban Policy Lab, IDEC, Hiroshima University

High school students’ future life choices associated with social exclusion: A case study in Hiroshima Prefecture

16:30 ~ 17:10 Studies on Japan (4)

Hajime SEYA, Assoc. Prof., Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University

A spatial analysis on net migration in Hyogo Prefecture

17:10 ~ 17:50 Studies on Japan (5)

Zhenjiang SHEN, Prof., Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University

Development of agent-based model for simulation on residential mobility affected by downtown regeneration policy

17:50 ~ 18:00 Closing remarks