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Time and day: 1:00pm-3:00pm, June 3 (mon), 2019

Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab., Third floor, Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400020145.pdf

Presentation

– Title: Opetational Models, Drivers’ Compensation, and Bus Service Quality in Bangkok

– Abstract:

This paper explores how operational models and compensation methods are associated with bus drivers’ incentives and consequently bus service quality and safety in Bangkok. We cross-analyze data on bus drivers’ compensation collected from a structured interview survey with data on passenger complaints and bus accidents compiled from governmental databases. We find that private joint-service operators provide their drivers with far less compensation and benefits than the state-owned operator. The private operators also tie drivers’ compensation and benefit levels to the numbers of working hours and trips, especially on routes where private operators can compete freely. These compensation methods incentivize drivers to work long hours beyond what is permitted by law, inducing fatigue and potential accidents. The key policy implication is that the bus policy aiming to improve service quality and safety should improve drivers’ compensation and working conditions.

Short bio of presenter

Saksith Chalermpong is Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, where he teaches transport engineering, planning, and policy. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Transportation Institute, Chulalongkorn Univeristy. 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. Dr. Chalermpong received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Chlalongkorn University, his master’s degree from MIT, and his doctoral degree from UC Irvine, both in the field of transport.

Charge: free

Language: English only

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-regstration.

Date & Time: May 10, 14:30-15:30

Place: Room 206, IDEC, Hiroshima University

Name: Stephen Greaves

Affiliation: The University of Sydney

Bio: Stephen Greaves is a Professor in Transport Management in the Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney. He has previously Director of the Business School Doctoral studies program (2014-2017).  Stephen’s research interests are focused around the health/environmental/safety impacts of transport, new vehicle technologies including electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, and innovative travel data collection methods using the latest technologies. He has 125 refereed publications, including 43 in international journals, and has held three major ARC grants. He also provides expert advice and media commentary on a range of transport-related issues and was co-chair of a major international coference on survey methods held in Australia in 2014.

Presentation title: The value of slow travel: Economic appraisal of cycling projects using the logsum measure of consumer surplus

Abstract: Walking and cycling have clear benefts for users, even though they may be slower than other transport modes. However, these user benefits could be undervelued using traditional economic appraisal, in which speed increases or travel time savings are highly valued. This paper explores the use of the logsum measure of consumer surplus for valuing the user benefits of new active transport infrastructure, using new separated cycleways in Sydney (Australia) as a case study. The results suggest the value of user benefits can be significant – of a similar order of magnitude to the estimated value of the public health benefits – and it becames more pronounced as cycleways are intergrated into a connected network. The method could be used to inform transportation investment policy decisions in other jurisdictions, where suitable travel survey data are available.

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Title: Enjoy Biking in Taipei: Using, Planning and Assessing （台北における自転車利用の時空間パターン，自転車道のネットワークデザイン，利用可能性評価について）

Date: April 25 (Thursday), 2019, 5:00-6:00pm

Place: Seminar room (1), Tokyo University of Ssience, Dept. of Civil Engineering (Noda campus, Building No.5, 1st floor) 東京理科大学理工学部土木工学科ゼミ室 (1) （野田キャンパス5号館1階）

Presenter: Professor Jen-Jia Lin （林楨家 教授）, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan （国立台湾大学地理学科）

Abstract:

Biking is a green and active travel mode that consumers minimal energy, limited pollution, and accompanies physical activites. Taipei City government has deployed numerous biking-promotion schemes since 2009; however, because of very limited knowledge about biking in literature, a portion of the promotion schemes were developed in unprofessional ways and their effectiveness need further improvements. To fill the research gaps, attention toward to biking studies has been increasing in the past decade in Taiwan. I would like to briefly introduce three recent works in my lab, which are related to spatiotemporal patterns of public bike uses, bikeway network design model and area-wide bikeability assessment method. All of the works are empirically based on Taipei context, and their details can be found in the following articles.

Lin, J. J. and Liao, R. Y. (2016), Bikeway network design model for recreational bicycling in scenic areas, Networks and Spatial Economics, 16 (1): 9-31.

Lin, J. J. and Wei, Y. H. (2018), Assessing area-wide bikeability: A grey analytical network process, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 113: 381-396.

Liu, H. C. and Lin, J. J. (2019), Associations of built environments with spatiotemporal patterns of public bicycle use, journal of Transport Geography, 74: 299-312.

Anyone who is interesting in biking research is welcome to attend the seminar and all commnets and questions will be appreciated.

Keywords: Biking, Spatiotemporal nanalysis, Network design problem, Bikeability assessment

Time and day: 5:00pm-6:00pm, April 18 (Thursday), 2019

Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab., Third floor, Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo

https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400020145.pdf

Presentation

– Title: Findings from the UK National Travel Survey Data that are cogent to new land use and transport infrastructure developments

– Abstract:

This short talk summarises the methods and findings from our studies using the UK National Travel Survey data. The methods deployed include those of structural equation modelling and latent cluster analysis for indentification of travel behavioural patterns, and those of integrated economic, land use, built form and passenger travel modelling for predicting travel demand changes in the medium and long term. The insights from the findings have been used to support our recent predictive modelling work on balancing jobs, housing, and travel in the suburbs and exurbs of London (especially for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayoral Authority), and for the UK as a whole (at the UK2070 Commission in its inquiry into regional inequality and a long term plans for action). The Cambridge team is currently engaging with national travel survey teams in Germany and the Netherlands.

Short bio of presenter

Dr. Ying Jin is a Reader in Architecture and Urbanism at University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He has been working on land use planning, transport modelling and urban design in the UK since 1992, and since 2013 leading the research group on cities and transport at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, which if a leading institution in the UK in creating and using predictive models for cities and multimodal transport systems. Ying Jin’s work has increasing incorporated the social and political dynamics in transport and urban planning. He became an inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Univerdsity of Cambridge in 2018.

Charge: free

Language: English only

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-regstration.