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We will conduct a special seminar, in which Prof. Saksith Chalermpong (Chulalongkorn University) is invited to give a talk about electric motorcycles in Bangkok. This event is held in a hybrid style from 9:30am-11:00am (Japan Standard Time), November 13th (Wednesday), 2024.

We hope you will join us for the event and engage in this important conversation. The details are shown as follows. Thank you.

[The 15th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]

1) Time and day: 9:30am-11:00am (Japan Standard Time), November 13th (Wednesday), 2024

2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/82526455613?pwd=anzCIUMZj9v7hIybPoYbhW1GgLlV0e.1, Meeting ID: 825 2645 5613, Passcode: 589918)

3) Presentation

– Presenter: Prof. Saksith Chalermpong (Chulalongkorn University)

– Title: Factors Influencing the Decision to Switch to Electric Motorcycles Among Various Motorcycle Driver Profiles in Bangkok

– Abstract: Carbon emissions, a major driver of climate change, represent a critical global challenge, with significant contributions from the transportation sector. To reduce carbon emissions from this sector, many countries have actively promoted the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) as alternatives to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. This study investigates the potential of electric motorcycles (EMs) to address these challenges in Bangkok, Thailand. By analyzing stated preference survey data through a binary logit model, we examined preferences among different types of motorcyclists, including traditional motorcycle taxi drivers, app-based motorcycle taxi drivers, and private motorcycle owners. Our analysis considered factors such as purchase price, maintenance cost, operational cost efficiency, and driving range. The findings indicate that socio-demographic attributes, driving behavior, and motorcycle usage significantly influence the likelihood of switching to EMs. Notably, app-based motorcycle taxi drivers are 17.5% less likely to switch to EMs compared to private motorcycle owners, while traditional motorcycle taxi drivers show no significant difference in switching likelihood. This study emphasizes the importance of targeted policies and incentives to foster EM adoption, offering valuable insights for policymakers and manufacturers aiming to enhance sustainable transportation in Bangkok and comparable regions in the global south.

4) Short bio of presenter

Saksith Chalermpong is Professor in Civil Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, where he teaches transportation engineering, planning, and policy. He also serves as Deputy Director of Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute. His research interests include urban mobility, public and informal transportation, and sustainable transportation. He has published extensively in the field of transportation and has provided expert advice on important public issues to several government agencies in Thailand, including Department of Land Transport, Office of Transport Planning and Policy, and Bangkok Mass Transit Authority. Dr. Chalermpong received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Chulalongkorn University, his master’s degree from MIT, and his doctoral degree from UC Irvine, both in the field of transportation.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

この度、 Axhausen教授を囲む交通計画・交通行動分析の連続国際セミナーを以下通り開催します。

開催日は１１月７日、１１月１４日及び１１月２６日で、場所と時間は以下の通りです。

場所：東京大学本郷キャンパス工学部１４号館８０２号室 （８F）

時間：１７時～１９時

事前登録は不要です。皆様のご参加お待ちしております。

On November we will be holding a series of international seminars with the participation of Profesor Kay Axhausen.

The seminar will be held on November 7, November 14 and November 26. The place and time for all seminars is as follows:

Place: The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Engineering Building 14th, Room 802 (8F)

Time:　17:00~19:00

Registration for these events is not required. We look forward to your participation.

11月6日に元デンマーク工科大学・交通研究所・主任研究員であったDr.Henrik Gudmundsson（ヘンリック・グッドムッドソン氏）をお招きし，大学統合後初めてのTSU(Transport Studies Unit)セミナーを下記の要領で開催いたします．
対面のみで開催予定ですが，オンラインでの参加を希望される方は花岡までご連絡をお願いします．
ご参加をお待ちしております．

日時：2024年11月6日（水）14:00-15:00頃

場所：東京科学大学大岡山キャンパス石川台3号館1階I3-107 (I311)

講演者：Dr.Henrik Gudmundsson, Senior Consultant, CONCITO, Denmark

題目：Sustainable Urban Mobility and Local Climate Planning in Europe and Denmark, in a Multi-level Governance Context.

概要：Transport is a main source of greenhouse gas emissions in most countries and cities. Transport is also an activity which can be hard, slow, and potentially costly to fully decarbonize. Moreover, decarbonization of transport must be considered in the context of other key functions and harmful impacts of the increasing demand for mobility. It is therefore widely recognized that policies at multiple levels should be well aligned if transport is to contribute to the timely end effective delivery of global, regional, national, and local climate targets. The presentation will introduce key European top-down policies for sustainable transport and decarbonization based in the so-called fit-for-55 package, as well as policies at the national and local level. The presentation will especially highlight the unique Danish example of voluntary local Climate Action Plans for all Danish municipalities and how these plans are addressing the transport decarbonization challenges. A topic for reflection is what local climate action can bring to the transformation of transport and mobility systems, and how such actions can be aligned with national and continental targets, policies, and governance frameworks for sustainability and decarbonization.

講演者紹介：ヘンリック・グッドムッドソン氏は，1988年にロスキレ大学を修了（環境計画）後，デンマーク環境保護省並びに空間計画省において，持続可能な交通とモビリティ，環境政策等の実務に従事されました．その後，1993年よりデンマーク国立環境研究所において研究員として勤務し，コペンハーゲン－マルメ間のウアスン海峡大橋をはじめとする，デンマークにおける幾つかの大規模プロジェクトの環境影響評価に携わっておられます．2000年にコペンハーゲン・ビジネススクールにおいて経営学博士号を取得後は，デンマーク工科大学・交通研究所において，主に，パフォーマンス指標とモニタリング，交通計画策定における知識技術の活用，交通政策の制度的側面等に関する研究及び実務に従事されました．また，同氏は，欧州連合・欧州議会の持続可能な交通に関するプロジェクトや，米国運輸学会における持続可能性並びにパフォーマンス指標に関する委員会のメンバーも勤めていました．

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現在名古屋大学に滞在されていらっしゃるKay Axhausen先生について，岐阜大学でも講演いただく運びとなりましたのでご案内差し上げます．参加希望の方は倉内までご連絡ください．

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講演者：Kay Axhausen先生（チューリッヒ工科大学教授）
講演題目：Recent experiences with GPS tracking
日時：2024年10月7日(月) 13:00-14:30
場所：岐阜大学柳戸キャンパス　工学部講義棟4階42番教室（以下のリンクの地図の17番の番号があるところ）
https://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/campus_map/tatemono_202404.png

■実施形式: ハイブリッド (オンラインの場合は18-19時のみ)

■申込フォーム：https://forms.gle/uR9NYv2Vsc3Q82M27

■記念講演概要：

東京大学の渡邉萌です。

今週 27日 (金) AM10:00~11:00の時間帯で、東京大学本郷キャンパスにて研究セミナーを開催いたします。

私の共同研究者でもある若手研究者のAbhilash C. Singhに、欧州における調査により得られた自転車利用者の経路データの生成・経路選択モデルについて話してもらいます。

Abhilashはテキサス大学オースティン校にて修士号、2023年にImperial College Londonにて博士号を取得後、現在はダブリン大学トリニティ・カレッジ (アイルランド)にてポスドク研究員として働いています。

彼の研究内容は主に、発展的な行動モデルにより居住地の自己選択 (self-selection)による内生性に対処しながら世帯の交通行動を分析しており、これまでC.R.BhatやP.L.Mokhtarian、E.J. MillerやAruna Sivakumarらと共に実証的な研究論文を発表しています (詳しくはCVをご参照ください: https://x.gd/Abhilash)。

日時・場所は下記の通りです。私への事前連絡等は不要ですのでお気軽にご参加ください。よろしくお願いいたします。

日時: 9月27日 (金) AM10:00~11:00

場所: 東京大学本郷キャンパス 工学部1号館 3F 324

名古屋大学の山本です．
講演会のご案内です．ご参加希望の方は，会場の都合がありますので私までご連絡いただければ幸いです．

講演者：Abhilash Chandra Singh博士（ダブリン大学）
https://abhilashcsingh.github.io/data/Singh_Abhilash_CV.pdf
講演題目：Cycling across Europe: Route choice analysis using multi-city data
日時：2024年9月25日(水) 10:30-12:00
場所：名古屋大学NIC館３階会議室

名古屋大学の山本です．
講演会のご案内です．ご参加希望の方は，会場の都合がありますので私までご連絡いただければ幸いです．
講演者：Kay W. Axhausen先生（チューリッヒ工科大学）
講演題目：Assessing major changes in the transport systems: The case of the e-Bike-City
日時：2024年9月18日(水) 13:00-14:30
場所：名古屋大学工学部5号館2階522講義室

[The 13th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 11:00am-12:30am (Japan Standard Time), July 18th (Thursday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
– Presenter: Prof. Marlon Boarnet (University of Southern California)
– Title: Monetary cost, time cost, and mode choice: Transit and ridehailing in California
– Abstract: Recent studies explore how ridehailing competes with transit, documenting drops in transit ridership when ridehailing became available. However, few examine the extent to which ridehailing substitutes for other modes, such as walking or private automobiles. Using travel diary survey data and travel times and costs from the San Francisco Bay Area, we employ a mixed logit model to analyze how trip characteristics such as travel time and travel cost influence traveler’s mode choices. The results show that if ridehailing costs increase by 10%, ridehailing trips decrease by 6.97%. About half of the lost riders would switch to driving, and 20% to transit. Therefore, driving, rather than transit, is the closest substitute for ridehailing. Furthermore, 10% reductions in transit time and transit cost are associated with a 24.63% and 5.03% increase in transit trips, respectively, suggesting that reducing travel time is more effective in increasing transit ridership than lowering fares.
4) Short bio of presenter
Marlon Boarnet is Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Director of the METRANS Transportation Consortium. METRANS is the center for transportation research at USC, and a partnership of the Price School of Public Policy, the Viterbi School of Engineering, and California State University – Long Beach. METRANS spans over 15 academic departments and programs at USC, with links to over a dozen universities in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to directing METRANS, Boarnet was the founding chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC (2016-2022) and he served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in USC’s Price School from 2014 through 2015. Boarnet was chair of the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at UC-Irvine from 2003 through 2006. Boarnet served as president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, the scholarly association of university planning departments and faculty members in the United States and Canada, from 2019-2021. Boarnet’s research focuses on land use and transportation, links between land use and travel behavior and associated implications for public health and greenhouse gas emissions, urban growth patterns, and the economic impacts of transportation. He is a fellow of both the Weimer School of the Homer Hoyt Institute for Real Estate and the Regional Science Association International. Boarnet has advised California state agencies on greenhouse gas emission reduction in the transport sector, the World Bank on transportation access as a poverty reduction tool, and numerous other public and private entities. He has been principal investigator on over four million dollars of research supported by agencies that include the U.S. and California Departments of Transportation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Resources Board, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Boarnet’s academic web page is: https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/marlon-boarnet/.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only

The 20th BinN International Research Seminar
Title: Future of transport planning and traffic analysis
Speaker: Honorary Prof. William Lam, University of Sydney Business School
Coordinator: Honorary Prof. Asakura Yasuo, University of Tokyo
Date：2024.6.24 1000-1130
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Ito International Hall, Special Conference Room on the 3rd Floor
Outline: Recent trends in research on transport planning and traffic forecasting, ITS technology and development, smart surveillance and traffic simulation, public transport and pedestrian studies have been supported by significant advancements in sensing technology and mathematical models. Lam, a key figure who has built a leading global transportation research community centered in Hong Kong since the 1990s, has produced many students and researchers. Through a discussion with Professor Yasuo Asakura, a close associate of Lam, we would like to explore the trends and future of advanced fields in ITS and transport research in Japan and China

[The 12th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 4:30pm-6:00pm (Japan Standard Time), June 17th (Monday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
Title: Strategic Investment for Green Growth in Uzbekistan
Abstract: Uzbekistan is expected to take a range of transformative actions for economic development and poverty reduction based on the concept of “green growth.” The country signed the Paris Agreement in April 2017 and submitted the 2nd Nationally Decided Contribution (NDC) in October 2021, with a target of reducing the country’s GHG emissions per unit of GDP by 35% below 2010 levels by 2030. The 2nd NDC further underlined the importance of climate resilience in promoting Uzbekistan’s socio-economic development as its landlocked territory is highly vulnerable to various natural disasters. To meet the low-carbon and climate resilient targets along the scope of green growth, the ADB’s economic diagnosis study (EDS) identifies Uzbekistan’s strategic investment options across critical infrastructure sectors — energy, transport, information and communication technology, water and waste management, and agriculture and food production systems. This study also refers to Uzbekistan’s recent urban development trends and adaptive spatial planning measures since the effectiveness of low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure investment for green growth depends on the degree and pattern of urbanization. From quantitative figures and qualitative discussions, key implications are drawn for Uzbekistan to leverage investment in critical infrastructure systems and move toward a green economy.
4) Short bio of presenter
Dr. Jin Murakami is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He has specialized in the areas of transport and land use, urbanization, spatial planning and economic development, urban infrastructure finance and land policy, and urban climate policy and finance. His research focuses principally on spatial, financial, and technological drivers that influence city-regions’ global competitiveness and local livability. His current projects include an international case study of transit-oriented development (TOD) and land value capture (LVC), the impacts of airport connectivity and accessibility changes on cities, and the financialization of cities with ESG investing criteria (e.g., zero-emission transport and housing). His previous research projects have been published from international development, research, and educational institutes (e.g., World Bank, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Asian Development Bank) and SSCI-listed peer-reviewed journals in urban studies, economics, geography, transportation, land use policy, and environmental studies. In addition, Dr. Murakami served as Lead Author (LA) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 WGIII Chapter 12: Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning (2012-2014) and AR6 WGIII Chapter 8: Urban Systems and Other Settlement (2019-2022). He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only

[The 11th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 10:00am-11:30 am (Japan Standard Time), April 25 (Thursday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
Title: Review on the development of transport infrastructure in Vietnam in past 30 years
Abstract: Transport infrastructure in Vietnam has been drastically improved, including road and expressway, deep seaports, and major airports, while national railway has been left behind and the development of urban railway in major cities is much slower than expected. During the past 30 years, GDP per capital of Vietnam has grown from 200 USD to over 4,000 USD. This presentation first reviews the development stages of transport infrastructure in Vietnam, together with the country’s development policies at each development stage, and then introduces recent discussion about a development plan for High-speed Railway in Vietnam.
4) Short bio of presenter
Dr. Phan Le BINH has started to work at Oriental Consultants Global (OCG) Co. Ltd. as the Deputy General Manager of OCG Hanoi Office from April 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2003. For nearly 20 years, he worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), being responsible for many ODA projects in the field of transport and urban development in Asian developing countries including Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, and Pakistan. He used to be also dispatched from JICA to Vietnam Japan University as a lecturer to teach transportation planning for five years.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only

Title: International Workshop on Urban Freight Analytics
Date: 23 April 2024, Tuesday 13:00-17:00
Organised by: Institute for City Logistics
Venue: Kyoto University Tokyo Office
Shin-Marunouchi Building, 10th floor, 1-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6510
Kyoto University Tokyo Office | KYOTO UNIVERSITY (kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Language: English
Fee: free
Topic 1: Urban Freight Analytics
Speakers:
1. Professor Emeritus Eiichi Taniguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
2. Professor Russell G. Thompson (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
3. Associate Professor Ali G. Qureshi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Topic 2: Agent-based Urban Freight Simulations
Speaker: Associate Professor Takanori Sakai (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan)
Abstract for Topic 1: Urban Freight Logistics
Urban Freight Analytics examines key concepts associated with development and application of decision support tools for evaluating and implementing city logistics solutions. New analytical methods are required for effectively planning and operating emerging technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of modelling and evaluation approaches of urban freight transport. This will include case studies from Japan, US, Europe and Australia that illustrate the experiences of cities that have already implemented city logistics, including analytical methods that address the complex issues associated with adopting advanced technologies such as autonomous vehicles and drones in urban freight transport.
The workshop will be based on the book, “Urban Freight Analytics: Big data, Models and Artificial intelligence” by E. Taniguchi, R.G. Thompson and A.G. Qureshi, CRC Press, London, 2023. Procedures for evaluating city logistics technologies and policy measures will be presented. An overview of advanced modelling approaches, including agent based modelling and machine learning will be provided. The essential features of optimisation and simulation models applied to city logistics will be highlighted. An overview of how models incorporating more uncertainty and dynamic data can be used to improve the sustainability and resilience of urban freight systems will be presented.
This workshop will also describe future directions in urban freight analytics, including hyperconnected city logistics based the Physical Internet (PI), digital twins, gamification and emerging technologies such as connected and autonomous vehicles in urban areas. An integrated modelling platform will be presented that considers multiple stakeholders or agents, including emerging organisations such as PI companies and entities such as crowd-shippers as well as traditional stakeholders such as shippers, receivers, carriers, administrators and residents.
Abstract for Topic 2: Agent-based Urban Freight Simulations
The urban freight transportation system has continually evolved with innovations in logistics and technology (e.g., urban consolidation, crowd shipping, cargo bikes, mobile hubs, parcel lockers, etc.). This evolution has been accompanied by a transformation of the retail market due to the rapid penetration of online shopping. In the coming years, urban freight transportation systems will face new challenges to bring sustainability (e.g., zero emissions) to the forefront, leverage new technologies (e.g., automated vehicles, delivery robots, drones), and accommodate further expansion of e-commerce. In this context, simulation tools are needed to evaluate new logistics solutions and provide insights to planners and policy makers.
In the field of freight modeling research, the methodology of agent-based microsimulations has received increasing attention in the last several years. SimMobility Freight (SMF), which is developed by the MIT ITS lab, is one of the state-of-the-art agent-based freight simulators and has been used for analyzing various urban logistics solutions and scenarios. In this session, Takanori will introduce key design features of SMF and studies that use SMF, including the evaluations of cargo hitching, parking demand management, off-peak deliveries, and congestion pricing, as well as recent applications of SMF in Tokyo for evaluating the locations of logistics facilities.

Japan-Korea Transportation Research Networking Seminar
Date and Time: 13:00-18:00, April 4th, 2024
Place: Large Conference Room, IDEC, Hiroshima University (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pEEiNLyqroaTLpG68)
Seminar Schedule
13:00-13:05 Opening Remark
Akimasa Fujiwara, Hiroshima University
13:05-13:15 Brief Introduction of Transportation Studies Group at Hiroshima University
Makoto Chikaraishi, Hiroshima University
Session 1: Public Transport (Chair: Giancarlos Parady, The University of Tokyo)
13:15-13:45 Metropolitan Area Size and Service Quality on Public Transport Satisfaction
Junghwa Kim, Assistant Professor, Kyonggi University
13:45-14:15 What drives the bus drivers’ job satisfaction?
Jihye Byun, Assistant Professor, University of Seoul
14:15-14:45 Mobility Experiment Twin: Shared Autonomous Vehicles for First-and-Last-Mile Public Transportation
Pham Van Son, PhD Student, Hiroshima University
14:45-15:00 Break
Session 2: Emerging Travel Modes and Active Travel (Chair: Nur Diana Safitri, Hiroshima Univ.)
15:00-15:30 Exploring attitudinal group differences in preferences for E-scooter options: focusing on the DC and LA contexts
Sung Hoo Kim, Assistant Professor, Hanyang University
15:30-16:00 Exploring Heterogeneous Private Car Sharing Decisions under Uncertainties
Li Mengxia, PhD Student, Hiroshima University
16:00-16:30 Modeling pedestrian behavior representing competitive nature between movers and stayers in urban public space
Keishi Fujiwara, PhD Student, Hiroshima University
16:30-16:45 Break
Session 3: Transportation Systems Analysis (Chair: AlOlabi Reem, Hiroshima University)
16:45-17:15 A Hazard-Based Duration Model to Quantify the Impact of Work-Related Distraction on Taxi Drivers’ Conflict Risk: A Driving Simulator Study
Tiantian Chen, Assistant Professor, KAIST
17:15-17:45 A dynamic system optimal dedicated lane design for connected and autonomous vehicles
Seunghyeon Lee, Associate Professor, University of Seoul
17:45-17:50 Concluding Remark
Feng Tao, Hiroshima University

Freight Modeling and Data Collection Seminar
Date: March 29, 2024
Time: 13:20 – 16:30
Venue: Lecture Hall, Research Building No. 4 @ Etchujima Campus, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (東京海洋大学第４実験棟５階大教室）
Program
13:20-13:30 Greetings
13:30-14:30 The following will be presented by Prof. Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
– Freight Demand Synthesis techniques that infer freight trips and freight flows using secondary data, such as a estimates of FTG and FG and traffic counts
– The Behavioral Microsimulation (BMS) an agent based simulator
14:30-14:40 Break
14:40-15:30 “Agent-based Urban Freight Simulations and Applications” by Prof. Takanori Sakai, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
15:30-16:20 “2023 Tokyo Metropolitan Freight Survey” by Dr. Takeshi Kenmochi, The Institute of Behavioral Sciences.
16:20-16:30 Closing

International Symposium on Sustainable Urban Mobility through Modular and Integrated Transport System
Venue: Okuma Hall, Nagoya University
Date and time: Thursday, March 28, 2024, 13:30-17:45
Admission: Free
Language: English
Schedule:
13:30-13:40 Opening remark: Prof. Takayuki Morikawa (Nagoya University)
13:40-14:30 Prof. Yavuz Duvarci (Izmir Institute of Technology)
Drawing a vision for a more sustainable mobility: Example of PRT systems
14:30-15:20 Prof. Csaba Csiszár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Reshaping mobility – merging transitional transportation modes
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 Prof. Shoshi Mizokami (Kumamoto Gakuen University)
Current status of smart mobility in Japan and Kumamoto-oriented MaaS
16:20-17:00 Dr. Giancarlos Parady (University of Tokyo)
Required simulated population ratios for valid assessment of shared autonomous vehicles’ impact using agent-based models
17:00-17:40 Dr. Lanhang Ye (Nagoya University)
Concept and simulation of door-to-door personal rapid transit system
17:40-17:45 Closing

[The 10th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 10:00am-11:30am (Japan Standard Time), March 8 (Friday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
Title: Urban Sociophysical Resilience: Modeling the Interplay of Human Dynamics and Infrastructure Systems during Disasters
Abstract: Cities are the main engines of productivity, innovation, and cultural diversity, owing to their ability to foster dense social and economic connections among people and organizations. However, cities are also at the forefront of unprecedented challenges, including increased frequency of climate change induced disasters, novel mobility technology, and growing inequality and segregation. To build urban resilience to such challenges, we need to understand better the cascading socioeconomic impacts of shocks, which are undergirded by complex interdependencies between social networks, urban infrastructure, and online systems. Leveraging the increasing availability of large-scale human behavior data collected from mobile devices (e.g., mobile phone GPS, social media, web search), I study the resilience of cities using a sociophysical systems lens. In this talk, I will discuss the results from my research on the resilience of cities to climate change induced disasters, focusing on the impacts of complex interdependencies between social dynamics and infrastructure systems. I will also introduce my ongoing research on the resilience of economic networks, and future vision on cross-city transfer learning approaches to prepare cities for unprecedented shocks.
4) Short bio of presenter
Dr. Takahiro Yabe is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and Department of Technology Management and Innovation at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Media Lab working with Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Esteban Moro. Taka’s research develops data-driven methods to understand collective social dynamics during disruptions and to model the resilience of complex urban systems to natural hazards, pandemics, and mobility technology. His recent works have been published in journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Machine Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Tokyo.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only

シンポジウム「都市洪水に対する交通システムの適応策―アジアの都市を事例として―（Adaptation Measures for Transportation Systems to Urban Flooding -The Case Study of Asian Cities-）」
主催：日本大学理工学部
共催：EASTS-Japan・日本環境共生学会
日時：2024年2月17日（土）10:00-17:30
会場：日本大学理工学部1号館121会議室（東京都千代田区神田駿河台1-8-14）・オンライン配信（Zoom Webinar）
プログラム：
10:00-10:05　開会挨拶：小早川悟；日本大学理工学部
10:05-10:25　IRG-38の紹介：Prof. Alexis Fillone : De La Salle University
10:25-11:15　基調講演1 : Principles and Practices of Vulnerability Analysis (with an Emphasis on Urban Areas and Flooding（Prof. Michael Taylor: University of South Australia）
11:15-12:05　基調講演2 : Flood Mapping with Satellite Data and People Movement（長井正彦：山口大学）
13:10-15:20　アジアの都市を対象とした洪水発生時の交通システムに関する分析の事例紹介
(1) Mobility Management in Response to Urban Floods in HCMC, Vietnam: Behavioral Analysis, Weather-Traffic Short-term Prediction and Traffic Management Framework (Dr. Vu Anh Tuan: Vietnamese German University)
(2) Impact of Flooding on Truck Movement in Metro Manila, Philippines (Prof. Alexis Fillone)
(3) Evaluation of Vulnerable Routes and Simulation under Normal and Flood Conditions in Cagayan De Oro, Philippines (Prof. Anabel Abuzo: Xavier University, Anteneo de Cagayan)
(4) Synergizing Flood Risk and Road Network Dynamics for Optimized Evacuation Strategies (Dr. Suwanno Piyapong: Rajamangala University of Technology, Srivijaya)
(5) Integrated Framework for Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Measures: A Case Study on Healthcare Accessibility Amid Pluvial Flooding in Bangkok (Dr. Varameth Vichiensan: Kasetsart University)
(6) The Impact of Riverine Flooding on the Relocation Choices of Residents in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand （積田典泰：日本大学）
(7) What could we learn from case studies and summary (Prof. Alexis Fillone)
15:40-17:10　パネルディスカッション：Urban Flooding and Transport Adaptation Measures in Asian Cities
モデレータ：Dr. Sittha Jaensirisak : Ubon Ratchathani University，パネリスト：Prof. Alexis Fillone, Prof. Anabel Abuzo, Dr. Vu Anh Tuan, Dr. Varameth Vichiensan, 福田敦：日大学理工学部
17:10-17:20　日本大学災害研究ソサイエティ（NUDS）の紹介　石坂哲宏：日本大学理工学部
17:20-17:25　閉会挨拶：福田敦
使用言語：英　語
参加費：　無　料

[The 9th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 10:00am-11:30am (Japan Standard Time), February 14 (Wednesday), 2024
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room
3) Presentation
Title: Modelling activity-travel choice behaviour in transport networks for a low-carbon future
Abstract: With the acceleration of urbanization in many regions, the intensity of human activities and the demand for transportation continue to increase. Residents’ daily activity-travel choice behaviours in transport networks are the main sources of carbon emissions in urban areas. Based on an activity-based travel analysis approach, this study explores how to relate residents’ complicated activity-travel choice behaviours to carbon emissions in transport networks. Influencing factors and measurements of carbon emissions from residents’ activity-travel choices are introduced. We try to understand the activity-travel choice behaviour for a low-carbon future using both the network equilibrium approach and data-driven approach. Some strategies for low-carbon transport management such as carbon credit charge scheme are discussed to jointly optimize urban land use plan and transport networks.
4) Short bio of presenter
Dr. Xiao FU is affiliated with School of Transportation in Southeast University, China as an associate professor and a visiting researcher at The University of Tokyo. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and was attached to National University of Singapore during the PhD study. Her research interests include activity-travel behaviour modelling, network equilibrium models, transport geography, spatial big data analytics, and carbon emissions in transport sector. Her works mainly appear in Transportation Research Part E, Transportation, Transportmetrica A, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, etc. She is now serving as an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica A: Transport Science and Guest Editor of Multimodal Transportation. She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Spatio-temporal Information and Journal of Chinese Geographical Science.
5) Charge: free
6) Language: English only

[The 8th UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]
1) Time and day: 1:00pm-2:30pm (Japan Standard Time), December 15 (Friday), 2023
2) Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Third floor, Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_12_j.html) + Zoom meeting room
3) Presenter: Jun KONDO (Senior Business Development Manager, Business Development Dept., Secure Technology & Solutions, Sony Corporation)
4) Presentation
-Title: Sony’s case studies in mobility payments implementation in Asia and changing mobility payments.
-Abstract: Asia is the largest and fastest-growing market for mobility services with significant plans and funding for transport infrastructure. Jun KONDO will share Sony’s case studies of mobility payments implementation in Asia and its technologies including NFC card and mobile payments. He will also talk about trend of mobility payments including technologies, schemes and applications: Sony and its business in mobility payments; About NFC FeliCa; Case studies in Asia; and Trend of mobility payments.
5) Short bio of presenter
Jun Kondo joined Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, in 1992 and started his career in customer service section. He was in charge of service parts distribution planning and control, including assignment in Belgium as Assistant Manager at Sony Service Centre (Europe) – European hub of after-sale service operations. He was transferred to smart card business unit called FeliCa Business Division (currently called Secure Technology & Solutions) in 2001 and was involved in international business development mainly in Asia and promotion of NFC (Near Field Communication) FeliCa. Since then, he has been engaged in building the NFC FeliCa ecosystems in collaboration with international partners.
6) Charge: free
7) Language: English only

シンガポール国立大学（NUS）のプラティーク・バンサル先生と博士課程学生の講演会

講演会１：
日時： 11月20日（月）　16：30 ～18：00
場所： 京都大学吉田キャンパス、38号館、共通４（入口は６３号館の反対側）https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/yoshida/map6r-y

講演会２
日時： 11月21日（火）　16：30 ～18：00
場所： 東大工学部本郷キャンパス工学部1号館４階セミナーA　https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_02_j.html

Prateek Bansal (https://www.prateekbansal.org/)
“Individual-level and System-level Behavioural Science in Transportation”
Bio: Dr Prateek Bansal is a Presidential Young (Assistant) Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2022, he was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Imperial College London and did a Ph.D. from Cornell, an MSc from UT Austin, a BTech from IIT Delhi. Prateek leads the Behavioural & Cognitive Science Lab at NUS, and is a co-principal investigator of the Adaptive Mobility module at Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore. His research group is interested in creating new methods to address challenging questions related to mobility behavior and the adoption of emerging technologies at an individual level and an urban scale. His research has led to over 55 journal articles. Apart from top Transportation journals, he regularly publishes in interdisciplinary journals like Energy Economics and Statistics and Computing. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics & Policy and the Journal of Public Transportation. He also serves as the editorial board member of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, and Journal of Choice Modelling, among others. He is a member of the TRB’s standing committees on Travel Survey Methods (AEP25) and Travel Forecasting (AEP50). Abstract: This talk will focus on system-level activity-based models and individual-level behaviour models. Specifically, three main system-level topics will be discussed: (i) novel deep generative models for feasible and diverse synthetic population, (ii) an analytical approach to simultaneously generate synthetic population and home-work locations by fusing travel survey data with the cellular signal data, (iii) generating synthetic population and activity chains by fusing travel survey data with the transit farecard data. The talk will conclude with an individual-level interpretable and flexible behaviour model, marrying data-driven and theory-driven approaches.

Xinwei Li:
“Marrying Cognitive Psychology and Behaviour Modelling: New Advancements and Results”
Bio: Ms. Xinwei Li is a Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Prateek Bansal in the Civil and Environment Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining the Behavioral & Cognitive lab, she achieved her MSc. in Statistics from NUS, and her B.S. in Mathematical Statistics from Renmin University of China. Xinwei focused on combining the discrete choice models with neurobiological data. Particularly, she is interested in Sequential Sampling Models(SSMs) developments, parameter estimations, and its extensions with choice process data like response time (RT) and eye-movement.
Abstract: This talk will focus on new models from mathematic psychology, known as sequential sampling models (SSMs), that are inherently dynamic to facilitate joint modelling of choice, response time (RT), and other data related to decision-making process (eye-movement of decision-makers). SSMs can also better explain the effect of nudges. The talk will focus on three main advancements in SSMs: (i) First empirical application of SSMs in transportation to explain the role of decoy effects in nudging ride-hailing drivers to adopt electric vehicles, (ii) mathematical proof for the value of involving RT into discrete choice models in terms of econometric estimation, (iii) Joint modelling of lab-based and web-based stated-preference data. By addressing challenges in existing SSMs, the talk will make a strong case for their applications in travel behavior modelling.

Webinar “Property Value Capture as a Mechanism for Public Transport Financing in the Philippines”
Date: 3 August 2023, Wednesday (1:00 – 3:00pm, Philippine Standard Time).
Program:
12:45 – 1:00 pm

Welcome Remarks – Dr. Jun Castro, Director, National Center for Transportation Studies
1:10 – 1:40
Keynote Talk by Prof. Shishir Mathur, Professor, San Jose State University, California, United States; Author of Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture (Routledge, 2016)
With Q&A
1:40 – 1:55
Transit Oriented Development and Property Value Capture in Japan
Prof. Hironori Kato, University of Tokyo
1:55 – 2:25
Presentations by panelists: Possible pathways for the implementation of Property Value Capture (PVC) as a Mechanism for Public Transport Financing in the Philippines
“Making PVC work in the Philippines: Perspective of a railway company”
Juan Alfonso, President/CEO, Light Rail Manila Corporation
“Making PVC work in the Philippines: Perspective of a real estate developer”
Francis Adrian Viernes, Assistant Vice President and Chief Data Scientist, Megaworld
“Making PVC work in the Philippines: Perspective of a government agency”
Leonel de Velez, Assistant Secretary, Department of Transportation
2:25 – 2:45
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Panel members:
Shishir Mathur, Professor, San Jose State University (optional)
Hironori Kato, Professor, University of Tokyo
Juan Alfonso, CEO and President, Light Rail Manila Corporation
Francis Adrian Viernes, Assistant Vice President – Chief Data Scientist, Head of Data Analytics / Data Science, Megaworld
Leonel Cray De Velez, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Project Development – Department of Transportation
Moderator: Dr. Varsolo Sunio
2:45 – 2:50
Synthesis / Closing Remarks
Raphael IV Abraham Hizon, Earthauz, Inc.

This webinar should be of interest to local government units, national government agencies, transit agencies, real estate developers, transport corporations, financial institutions, property appraisers and assessor, etc.

Historical and current urban design and its impact on children’s travel
Date: June 23 (Fri.), 2024. 15:00-17:40
Venue 京都大学 吉田キャンパス 総合研究4号館 共通4
(38番の建物　https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/archive/prev/access/campus/map6r_y）
Program:
15:00 – 15:30 Owen Waygood (Polytechnique Montréal)
“Planning for children’s independent travel”
15:30 – 16:00 Sylvia He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“Neighborhood features, out-of-home physical activities and public health: Using Google Street View images and survey to inform the planning and design of age-friendly neighborhoods”
16:00 – 16:30 Uno Haruka (Tokyo University of Science)
“Traffic Safety Measures for Children on Residential Streets in Japan”
16:30 – 16:50 David Hölzel (The University of Dortmund)
“Social and Environmental Influences on Children’s Everyday Mobility in Dortmund, Germany”
16:50 – 17:10 Goto Taiga（University of Tsukuba)
“TBA”
17:10 – 17:40 Nakao Satsohi (Kyoto University)
” Japanese history on traffic safety for children influenced by motorization “

Special seminar on EV in Hong Kong
1) Time and day: 1:00pm-1:45pm (Japan Standard Time), June 19 (Monday), 2023
2) Place (in-person): IP lab meeting room (on the third floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo)
3) Web link to online meeting: https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/87670893950?pwd=REVWS3BnYlRKQnpoZnlobGwvUVVodz09
4) Presenter: Dr. Sylvia He (Associate Professor, Urban Studies Programme, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
5) Presentation:
Title: Electrification of private cars in Hong Kong: EV adoption, charger accessibility, and the spatial planning of charging infrastructure
Abstract: Electrification of the transport sector is an important strategy to achieve carbon neutrality. Over the past few years, we have witnessed the momentum of transitioning from ICE cars to electric cars in different parts of the world, however, cities are facing various challenges and obstacles during the electrification process. In this seminar, one of the densest cities in the world – Hong Kong – will be presented, based on several recent publications and works in progress of my research lab. First, we will examine key determinants of EV adoption, based on the findings from a questionnaire survey in Hong Kong and Denmark. Among these critical factors is charger accessibility, which we will differentiate by objective, perceived, and prospective measures. Then we will develop a methodology framework and a location-allocation model to incorporate consumer preferences and land use constraints into the spatial planning of public EV charging infrastructure. Lastly, some works in progress using new and emerging data will be briefed at the end.
6) Charge: free
7) Language: English only

Theme: Travel behavior analysis of the elderly in China

Speaker: Prof. Shengchuan Zhao, Professor at School of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology

Date and time: 2023/4/20 (Th), 10:30-12:00

Place: Room 206 at Engineering Building 8th North, Nagoya University and Zoom

Abstract: The rapid demographic shift towards an aging society in China will bring more challenges to meeting the travel needs of older adults, especially the heterogeneity and differences in backgrounds, health, and subjective perceptions of them making it even harder. Walking, as a primary travel mode and physical activity for seniors in China, is important for them to keep involved in social life and maintain active and wellbeing while aging. Studies on the walking behavior of older adults have been focusing on realized journeys, but the research on the unmet walking needs has received insufficient attention. Moreover, most studies treated older adults as a homogeneous group. As such, this study examines how socio-demographic and built environment variables affect the unmet walking needs of older adults considering the unobserved heterogeneity by relying on subjective predictors of walking. The unmet walking needs are defined as the gaps between expected and actual walking frequencies. This is done by employing a hybrid approach integrating latent class analysis (LCA) and a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression model based on data collected from 533 older adults over 60 in China in 2021. Results of LCA show that three latent segments can be identified, i.e., Enthusiastic Walking Respondents with Excellent Health (EWEH), Positive Walking Respondents with Languishing Health (PWLH), and Fair Walking Respondents with Languishing Health (FWLH). The results of the ZIP regression model indicate that age, gender, income, elevator, and distances to the nearest bus stop are the relatively contributing factors to unmet walking needs for both three classes. Moreover, built environment factors, such as access to bus stops and distances to the nearest leisure facility, have the most significant influence on EWEH class. The findings of this study will offer insights for effective policies and interventions to build an age-friendly environment.

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), February 13 (Monday), 2023

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/88101614989?pwd=OFY2djIwU1VUZnRjOHltQ2kyYnpZdz09)

3) Presentation

Title: The role of ride-hailing services during COVID-19 in Indonesia

Abstract: Millions of people’s activities have been disrupted by the 2019 coronavirus. As an alternative to out-of-home activities, online activities have significantly risen. Due to this phenomenon, our presentation will explore the travel behavior change during the pandemic and understand how ride-hailing services support in-home activities in Indonesia. The use of ride-hailing services for online shopping with same-day delivery services become an interesting point that will be explored in our presentation

4) Short bio of presenter

Muhammad Zudhy Irawan is an associate professor of transportation planning and modeling in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He holds a doctoral degree from Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests are related to travel behavior, traffic simulation, and decision-making process.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

1) Time and day: 1:00pm-2:30pm (Japan Standard Time), February 2nd (Thursday), 2023

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/86742542338?pwd=RmpwT0E4cGJmVE81RytQU201aWcxUT09)

3) Presentation

Title: Analyzing transport transition issues from the perspective of justice using multi-criteria mapping method

Abstract: In this presentation, I apply the concept of justice and its dimensions (distributive, procedural, recognition, cosmopolitan and restorative) to transitions in public transportation systems. I also introduce the multi-criteria mapping (MCM) method (Coburn and Stirling, 2019), which was originally developed for the appraisal of contested visions. I demonstrate the applicability of both the concept and the method to the three cases of ongoing transport system transition in the Philippines, namely the (non–)legitimation of motorcycle taxis, the formalization of jeepney and the implementation of high-priority bus system. I attempt to unpack the (in)justice issues arising from these transition initiatives. Finally, I argue for the need to pay due attention to the ethical aspects and justice issues of transitions, which, being sources of tension, conflict and discontent, may powerfully resist the hoped-for sustainable transitions.

Keywords: Just transition; transport justice; sustainability transition; global south

References:
Sunio, V. (2021). Unpacking justice issues and tensions in transport system transition using multi-criteria mapping method. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 96, 102887.
Sunio, V., Ugay, J. C., Li, C. W., Liwanag, H. J., & Santos, J. (2023). Impact of Public Transport Disruption on Access to Healthcare Facility and Well-being During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Case Study in Metro Manila, Philippines. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 100948.

4) Short bio of presenter

Dr. Varsolo Sunio is affiliated with the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST) as an S&T Fellow II (for transport and logistics) and a visiting researcher at The University of Tokyo. He also holds (or has held) appointments as a research fellow at the University of Asia and the Pacific, De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of Macau. He finished his doctorate degree in Urban Management at Kyoto University and earned degrees from the National University of Singapore, University of the Philippines, and the Ateneo de Manila University. He previously worked as part of the data science team of the Philippines’ Department of Transportation (DoTr), the information technology team of Accenture, and the Supply Chain Department of Makati Medical Center. He has published papers on transportation issues in the developing country context, covering themes such as equity and justice, access and well-being, sustainable transitions, and financing of informal transport. His works appear in Transportation Research Part A, D and F, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Transport Policy, Research in Transportation Economics, Research in Transportation Business & Management, etc. He is also a regular reviewer for several transportation journals. He is a member of Transportation Science Society of the Philippines (TSSP), National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) and Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP). His personal website is: https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/varsolo-sunio/

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), January 23 (Monday), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/89737816643?pwd=WmVUOTZMNCttY3RiN2VJU21iNXVZUT09)

3) Presentation

Title: Use of Ride Hailing Services in Metro Manila, Bangkok, and Hanoi: A Comparison

Abstract: The study compared the use of the ride hailing services (RHS) in three (3) Southeast Asian cities, namely, Metro Manila, Bangkok, and Hanoi, during the Covid-19 pandemic period. It attempted to zero in on the varying ways by which citizens in these cities availed of RHS in 2020. A similar set of questionnaire survey form was administered, albeit differently; it was administered online in Metro Manila, while it was done face-to-face in Bangkok and Hanoi. The differing method of survey administration may have affected the representativeness of the samples. Nevertheless, similarities and dissimilarities are presented regarding the personal characteristics of RHS users and their usage of RHS in these three cities during the time of the pandemic.

4) Short bio of presenter

Dr. Alexis M. Fillone is a Professor of the Civil Engineering Department, De La Salle University, Manila. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Degree (Cum Laude) from Central Philippine University, Iloilo City, his Master of Engineering (Transportation) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand and his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines. He was a former president of the Transportation Science Society of the Philippines (TSSP). He has around 30 years of experience as a teacher in the field of transportation planning and traffic engineering and currently mentors several Master and PhD students at De La Salle University, Manila. He also has more than 20 years of experience in transport research focusing on travel behavior analysis, travel demand modeling, public transport planning, and traffic impact studies as well as consultancy work with the government and the private sector. He has published several articles in SCOPUS and ISI-listed journals. Aside from being a registered Civil Engineer, he is also a registered Environmental Planner.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), December 19 (Monday), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/86183190905?pwd=MTZaVzY4Umg4UERJL1hrQ3lva1Jqdz09)

3) Presentation

Title: Motorization Pattern and Private Vehicle Dependence in Asian Developing Countries

Abstract: In many developing countries, rapid motorization has been ongoing where owners of private vehicles tend to rely on their own vehicles for making trips. Although the ownership in developing cities is lower than that in developed cities, the excessive dependence on private vehicles has caused serious road traffic congestion, accidents, and negative environmental impacts in those cities. They require the mitigation of people’s dependency on private vehicles, including both private cars and motorcycles. This study investigates the private-vehicle-dependent behavior mainly in Asian developing countries. The presentation contains the topics: 1) review of motorization progress pattern and its influential factors based on statistical data of registered private vehicles in major Asian cities; 2) empirical analysis of private-vehicle dependency with mobility gaps between car/motorcycle owners and non-owners, using the JICA’s person-trips surveys; and 3) identification of factors affecting private-vehicle-dependent travel behavior, highlighting consciousness and attitude toward walkable-distance trips.

4) Short bio of presenter

Mr. Takayoshi Futose is an urban and transport consultant at ALMEC Corporation, Japan. After receiving his master’s degree from Yokohama National University, Japan, he has participated in various transport projects in developing countries, including African countries, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam. His main research concerns are transport survey, demand forecasting, public transport improvement, and transport planning. He is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the graduate school of Toyo University, Japan. His doctoral research highlights the people’s private vehicle dependency in major Asian cities for contributing to urban transport planning in developing world.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

This is an announcement of online international seminar on technology and policy of Japan’s road, which is organized jointly by Vietnam Japan University (VJU) and National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan. This event is held online from 15:00-17:20 (Japan Standard Time) on November 25 (Friday), 2022. This seminar aims to introduce the Japan’s road technology and policy making mainly to international students in Asian region including Japan. The details are shown in an attached file. Please find it. We hope you will join this seminar and engage in this important conversation. If you have any questions on this seminar, do not hesitate to contact Prof. Hironori Kato (Co-director of Master program in Civil Engineering, VJU, kato@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) and Prof. Shinichi Takeda (JICA long-term expert at VJU, takeda.s@vju.ac.vn). Thank you.

1) Time and day: 15:00-17:20 (Japan Standard Time), Nov 25 (Fri), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehj-_C–AcXKcer71EaTVRCBbBTVu-_xuiu5H0YwVLseudhQ/viewform)

Please have a look at the attached files for the details.

FinalVersion_Flyer_Introduction of road technology and policy making
【プログラム確定版】日越大学・国総研ジョイントセミナー

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), December 5 (Monday), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/87281677470?pwd=c3VmZlFxMDJXakVhME1kNit2NDFWQT09)

3) Presentation

– Title: Ride-Hailing Service Adoption and Local Context in Motorcycle-Based Societies: Case Study in Hanoi, Vietnam

– Abstract: The ride-hailing service (RHS) has emerged as a major form of daily travel in many Southeast Asian cities where motorcycles are extensively used. This study aims to analyze the local context in motorcycle-based societies, which may affect the establishment of travelers’ choice set after the appearance of RHSs. In particular, it empirically compares three types of choice-set structures in the context of urban travel mode choice by estimating standard logit and nested logit models to test six hypotheses on the associations of RHS adoption with its determinants. Revealed preference data of 449 trips from both RHS users and non-RHS users were collected through a face-to-face interview-based questionnaire survey in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2020. The results of model estimations revealed: (1) a substitutional effect for two-wheelers but not for four-wheelers, (2) a significant positive influence of car ownership on car RHS adoption but not on motorcycle RHS adoption, (3) significantly high sensitivity to travel time of motorcycle RHS but not of car RHS, (4) a significant negative effect of traffic congestion on car RHS adoption but an insignificant one on motorcycle RHS adoption, and (5) a significant positive association of an individual’s experience in using a smartphone with car RHSs but insignificant association with motorcycle RHSs. Our findings suggest that transportation policies of RHS motorcycles should be different from those of RHS cars because of the heterogeneity in travel behaviors of RHS users between them. They also indicate that the transition from motorcycles to cars as well as the difference in service availability among different types of RHSs should be incorporated into the development of transportation policies in Southeast Asian cities.

4) Short bio of presenter

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Hoang-Tung is currently a researcher at University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam. He obtained a Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Saitama University, Japan in 2014. He worked as a research associate at Saitama University and as an invited lecturer at Vietnam Japan University, Vietnam. He has more than 15 year experience in the academic and industrial fields of the transport sector. He was involved in numerous transport projects in Vietnam and Japan, mainly as an in-house consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and Japan International Cooperation Agency. His major interest is a green transportation system and public-private partnerships. He and his co-authors were awarded the best research paper by the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) in 2020.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

We will hold an international seminar at the 4th annual symposium of the URBAN Re-DESIGN STUDIES UNIT on Nov. 26, 2022. The seminar will be held in English, and we welcome international students and researchers. You can join it online or onsite (Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo). Please take a look at the following for more details.

Seminar theme: Refugees and Migrants in the International Society with Disasters

Seminar website: http://dss.bin.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium/symposium_2022/#international

Date and Time: 15:35-17:00 (JST) on November 26 (Saturday), 2022

Seminar Objective:
As the SDG slogan “Leave no one behind” suggests, it is crucial to ensure that no one is left behind, even minorities, during the disaster relief and recovery phases. This seminar will focus on those who may be vulnerable due to cultural and religious differences: migrants and refugees. This seminar aims to share examples of post-disaster issues, support, and recovery efforts for immigrants and refugees in Japan and abroad. Since internationalization is expected to progress further, this seminar will provide an opportunity to consider the challenges that may arise from future disasters in Japan, and the support and reconstruction that will contribute to reducing these challenges.

Speakers:
1. Mohammad Moinuddin (Osaka University)
Title: Potential of foreign nationals during disasters: with reference to two mosques in Osaka, Japan
He will talk about the disaster relief activities of Islamic mosques, the daily activity hubs for foreign residents in Japan.

2. Miko Maekawa (Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
Title: TBD
She will talk about environmental migrants in Pacific Island countries.

3. Mio Sato (International Organization for Migration)
Title: TBD
She will talk about Afghan refugees in Pakistan and the relief efforts toward them.

Coordinators: Hitomu Kotani (Kyoto University) and Riki Honda (University of Tokyo)

Language: English

Fee: Free

Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdowMg68TeO1ZXz8ZwxJU_ns2lcsggW0DsB7F_QXMxnAv7Dvw/viewform

If you have any questions, please contact the coordinator: Dr. Hitomu Kotani (kotani.hitomu.5c@kyoto-u.ac.jp).

We will conduct a special seminar, in which Dr. Phathinan Thaithatkul (Chulalongkorn University) is invited to make a special presentation about a case study on mobility of elderly people in Thailand. This event is held online from 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), November 7 (Monday). We hope you will join us for the event and engage in this important conversation. The details are shown as follows. Thank you.

[2nd UTokyoIP-CUTI Special Seminar]

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), November 7 (Monday), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/83729974339?pwd=TmFUdVZjWHRRNURUUFBEellsOGwrUT09)

3) Presentation

Title: Mobility, Activities, and Happiness in Old Age: Case of the Elderly in Bangkok

Abstract:

Thailand’s population is rapidly ageing, making it crucial that policy makers understand how to support the welfare of the elderly community. Using the metric of Subject Well-Being (SWB) — a marker overall happiness — our study investigates the links between SWB and senior citizens’ mobility, travel behaviors, and activities outside of the home with the aim of better understanding which factors contribute to higher quality of life for the elderly. We conducted a survey of the elderly in Bangkok, Thailand and derived descriptive statistics and performed a Latent Class Analysis and ordered logistics regression to understand these relationships. We found that active elderly was likely to have higher level of the SWB than inactive elderly. Public transport use and Out-of-home activities engagement were associated with active elderly’s SWB in Thailand. Recommendations for policy makers include improved design of public transport services for the elderly and expanded fare reduction pricing through state welfare for senior citizens.

4) Short bio of presenter

Dr. Phathinan Thaithatkul is a researcher at Transportation Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand, and doctoral degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. She has experience working as a project researcher in Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her research interest covers urban mobility and transport planning. Her research focuses on the emerging mobile technology and urban mobility, e.g., ride-hailing services, ride-sharing services, and shared mobility services. She has been involved in an international research project on ride-hailing services. She also has experience in providing consulting services for Department of Land Transport in Thailand. Her consulting services cover the regulation framework for urban mobility.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

[International seminar on “assessing the navigation error characteristics of residents and tourists during evacuation”]

Date & time: 16:00-17:00, October 14, 2022

Venue: IDEC large conference room, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, Hiroshima University

Presenter: Dr. Yuval Hadas (Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Tittle: Assessing the navigation error characteristics of residents and tourists during evacuation – a combined simulation and virtual reality approach

Abstract: During evacuation, the evacuees are required to follow the fastest and safest path to the designated evacuation site. However, navigation errors due to lack of knowledge, signage presence and the evacuee behavior are affecting the evacuation efficiency. For that, it is imperative to assess these navigation errors and to develop an optimization model in order to increase the evacuation reliability by improving the guidance at key intersections. This is done by minimizing the difference between the deterministic shortest path and the stochastic shortest path with the stochasticity associated with the selection of an arc at each node, and the behavior of the evacuee. For that, we developed two components: 1) a MATSim based evacuation model, a random (or probabilistic) walk, in which the evacuees are dynamically selecting their next road section probabilistically, and 2) a virtual reality (VR) navigation challenge which investigate the decision-making during evacuation.

Contact: chikaraishim@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Makoto Chikaraishi, Hiroshima University)

We will conduct a special seminar, in which Dr. Saksith Chalermpong (Chulalongkorn University) is invited to make a special lecture about online food delivery in Bangkok, Thailand. This event is held online from 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), October 24 (Monday). We hope you will join us for the event and engage in this important conversation. The details are shown as follows. Thank you.

[1st UTokyoIP-CUTI Special Seminar]

1) Time and day: 4:00pm-5:30pm (Japan Standard Time), October 24 (Monday), 2022

2) Place: Zoom meeting room (https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/89842877944?pwd=VDgzSFVjR0doMXMyTDgxcjNqSjlCQT09; Meeting ID: 898 4287 7944; Passcode: 458770)

3) Presentation

Title: Consumers’ Spatial Attributes and Their Effects on Online Food Delivery Usage and Travel: Empirical Evidence from Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract:

This presentation gives an outline and findings of our recent paper. In this paper, we examine how consumers’ spatial attributes affect OFD adoption and usage frequency, by testing innovation-diffusion (ID) and accessibility-efficiency (AE) hypotheses. OFD usage data were collected by questionnaire surveys in Bangkok and analyzed by logistic and zero-truncated negative binomial regressions. Spatial attributes that were analyzed included the level of urbanization, transit accessibility, and availability of food outlets. The results from the OFD adoption model supported the ID hypothesis, but those from the OFD usage frequency model provided partial support for the AE hypothesis. Our results implied that while the effects of consumers’ spatial attributes on OFD usage via improved accessibility might be mixed, consumers’ locations played a critical role in explaining OFD use behaviors via diffusion of innovation.

4) Short bio of presenter

Dr. Saksith Chalermpong is Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, where he teaches transport engineering, planning, and policy. He has also served as Associate Director of Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute since 2018. His research interests include urban transport planning, public and informal transport, and equality issues in transport policy. He has published extensively in the field of transport, and has provided consulting services for several government agencies in Thailand, including Department of Land Transport, Office of Transport Planning and Policy, and Bangkok Mass Transit Authority. Chalermpong received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Chulalongkorn University, his master’s degree from MIT, and his doctoral degree from UC Irvine, both in the field of transport. His research on informal transportation in Bangkok with Apiwat Ratanawaraha was awarded an Excellent Research Award of Chulalongkorn University in 2018.

5) Charge: free

6) Language: English only

7) Participation: Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.