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.

Time and day: 2:00pm-3:00pm, April 18 (Thur), 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: Satiation in Travel-Based Multitasking: A Case Study from Mumbai, India

– Abstract:

Multitasking is an essential aspect of an individual’s overall activity participation and time allocation behavior, and travel is one of the few activities which provides the scope for natural multitasking. This study (1) analyzed the effect of parameters on multitasking choice which reflect the heterogeneity of urban settings in a developing country scenario, and (2) evaluated the existence of satiation and estimated it for different multitasking activities. A travel diary survey was conducted of 1,123 individuals residing in both formal and informal housing across the city of Mumbai, capturing information on their multitasking during travel behavior. A multiple discrete-continuous extreme value model was formulated testing the effect of parameters and estimating satiation in alternatives. Findings suggest that travel characteristics, individual and household socioeconomic characteristics, and access to information and communication technology (ICT) are important indicators affecting multitasking during travel. In addition, along with access to ICT, certain other socioeconomic characteristics such as gender, occupation type, and poor living conditions affected the participation in ICT-based multitasking activities, indicating the linkages between digital and social divide. Findings on satiation showed a glaring mismatch between participation and preference. Although the participation and time allocation in doing no activity were the highest, the levels of satiation were observed to be lower for sleeping/snoozing/resting activities and mos ICT-based multitasking alternatives. This indicated that if a suitable setting is provided, individuals prefer to participate in other activities rather than performing no activity.

Short bio of presenter

Varun Varghese is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Infrastructure Planning and Urban Risk Management lab at Hiroshima University. He is currently working on the application of advanced machine learning techniques for transportation planning and management. He is a Civil Engineer and he finished his Ph.D. from the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. For his Ph.D. thesis, he worked on indentifying the interrelationships between ICT, travel behavior, and activity participation behavior in Mumbai, India.

Charge: free

Language: English only

Particiapation: 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.

Date: 15:00-17:00, March 27, 2019

Venue: 東北大学 青葉山新キャンパス 環境科学研究科 本館4階講義室2

（キャンパスマップ：http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/map/ja/?f=AY_J22）

Title: Geographically Weighted Regression with flexible choices of distance metrics

Speaker: Dr. Lu Binbin, Wuhan University, China

Abstract:

Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) has been developed as a local technique to investigation spatial nonstationarity in data relationships. GWR is calibrated with data whose influence decays with distance, distances that are commonly defined as straight line or Euclidean. However, the complexity of our real world that the scope of possible distance metrics is far larger than the trasitional Euclidean choice. In this talk, GWR with flexible choices of distance metrics will be presented, i.e. using Euclidean distance and non-Euclidean distance metrics. Furthermore, variatons in spatial relationships within a GWR model might also very in intensity with respect to location and direction. This assertion has led to extensions of GWR with parameter-specific distance metrics (PSDM GWR).

Date: 16:00-17:30, March 25, 2019

Venue: 東京大学工学部14号館8階会議室（http://www.due.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/contact/)

Title: Space-Time GIS for Human Dynamics Research

Speaker:

Shih-Lung Shaw, Ph.D.

Alvin and Sally Beaman, Professor & Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor,

Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Abstract:

Due to widespread use of location-aware technology, information and communication technology (ICT) and mobile technology, there have been many important changes to how people carry out their activities and interactions that hace important implications to future transportation systems and services. With the unprecedented data collection of a wide range of human activities and the environments, we now have opportunities to gain insights of human dynamics in a space-time context. In the meantime, we also face many challenges of using geographic information science (GIScience) to properly support human dynamics research. This presentation will share some examples of our work in developping a space-time geographic information system (GIS) for human dynamics research, followed by a critical review of the limitations of conventional GIS and a proposed new GIScience framework to support human dynamics research in a hybrid physical-virtual space that includes four different conceptualizations for space.

About the speaker:

Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw is Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor and Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests cover GIS for transporation, space-time GIS, time geography, transportaton planning and modeling, and human dynamics. His recent research has focused on space-time analytics of human dymamics in a hybrid physical-virtual world based on various types of individual tracking data. Dr. Shaw is an elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a recipient of the Edward L. Ullman Award fro Outstanding Contributions to Transportation Geography from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). He served as Interim Associate Provost for International Education and Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. He is the current Chair of the Research Committee of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), lead editor of Spriger’s Human Dynamics in Smart Cities book series, and editorial board member of International journal of Geographical Information Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Travel Behaviour and Society, among others.

Contact:

国立環境研究所 有賀敏典

Email: ariga.toshinori@nies.go.jp

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日時：3月20日（水）　15：00-16:30

場所：京都大学桂キャンパスCクラスター C1-117（C棟会議室1）

http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_k.htm

講師：Prof. Stephane Hess, University of Leeds, UK

題目：Using big data for modelling human decision making

Abstract: Traditional data sources like household surveys are expensive to collect and sueveys are thus not conducted at regular enough intervals nor do they collect samples large enough to be representative or reliable for complex model estimation. On the other hand, very large streams of data are collected automatically from people every day, most notably in the form of mobile phone records and smart card data. While such data sourves have been used extensively for visualisarion or even in machine learning, their use in traditional transport modelling is still in its infancy. This presentation presents some ground-breaking work in this area, showing how smartcard, GPS and mobile phone data can be exploited for modelling a veriety of transport decisions and producing meaningful results. The presentation also looks at some of the steps required to make the data usable for analysis. The talk will provide a methodological overview meant to stimulate discussion. Part of the talk will also be a range of application studies, among others on tourism and evacuation modelling.

About the speaker: Stephane Hess is Professor of Choice Modelling in the Institute for Transport Studies and Director of the Choice Modelling Cntre at the University of Leeds. He is also Honorary Professor in Choice Modelling in the Institute for Transport and Logistices Studies at the University of Sydney, Honorary Professor of Modelling Behaviour in Africa at the University of Cape Town. His area of work is the analysis of human decision making using advanced mathematical models. He has made contoributions to the state of  the art in the specification, estimation and interpretation of such models, as well as in facilitating the transition of ideas and approaches across disciplines. Together with his research team at the Choice Modelling Centre, he is setting the research agenda in applying choice modelling in new fields, including education, lifestyle choices, social (network) interactions and joint decision making. Advanced choice models require high quality data, and Hess and his team are leading the field in exploring and exploring novel data sources, with numerous applications using  “big data”.  Hess has published over 100 peer reviewed journal papers, and his work is highly cited, with a Scopus H-index of 28 (google scholar H-index of 45). HIs cotributions have been recognised for example by the 2017 ICMC award for the most innvative application of chice modelling, the 2014 Outstanding Young Member of the Transporation Research Board (TRB) award for exceptional achievements in transportation research, policy, or practice, the 2010 Fred Burggraf award handed out by the Transportation Research Board and the 2005 Eric Pas award for the best PhD thesis in the area of travel behaviour modelling. He is also the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Choice Modelling and the founder and steering committee chair of the International Choice Modelling Conference.

参加申し込み先:  Jan-Dirk Schmöcker (PhD), Associate Professor
Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University
C1-2-436, Katsura Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
Tel : +81-75-383-3234, Fax: +81-75-383-3236
schmoecker@trans.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://trans.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp/its/Schmoecker.html

1) Datetime: 11:00am-0:00pm, March 18 (Mon.), 2019

2) Place: Seminar room, the 2nd floor of Midorigaoka Bldg. 5, O-okayama campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

3) Presentation

Speaker: Professor Yusak Susilo (KTH)

https://www.kth.se/profile/yusak

Outline:

The increased interest in the automation of travel diary collection, together with the ease of access to new artificial intelligence methods led scientists to explore the prerequisites to the automatic generation of travel diaries. One of the most promising methods for this automation relies on collecting GPS traces of multiple users over a period of time, followed by asking the users to annotate their collected data by specifying the base entities for a travel diary, i.e., trips and triplegs. This led scientist on one of two paths: either develop an in-house solution for data collection and annotation, which is usually an undocumented prototype implementation limited to few users, or contract an external provider for the development, which results in additional costs. This paper provides a third path: an open-source highly modular system for the collection and annotation of travel diaries of multiple users, named MEILI. The paper discusses the architecture of MEILI with an emphasis on the data model, which allows scientists to implement and evaluate their methods of choice for the detection of the following entities: trip start/end, trip destination, trip purpose, tripleg start/end, and tripleg mode. Furthermore, the open source nature of MEILI allows scientists to modify the MEILI was successfully trialed in multiple case studies in Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden between 2014 and 2017.

Reference: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.01.011

We will conduct a special seminar, in which Prof. Yusak Susilo, a Professor in Transport Analysis and Policy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is invited to make a mini-seminar about an open-source Apps. for collecting travel behavior data named “MEILI” and its applications.

Participation: Please contact Daisuke Fukuda (fukuda@plan.cv.titech.ac.jp) for joining this seminar

1) Time and day: 5:00pm-6:30pm, March 18 (Mon), 2019

2) 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)

3)  Presentation
– Title: Lessons from Autonomous Bus Service Deployment on a Public Road in Stockholm
– Abstract:
An EZ10 autonomous bus has been deployed in Stockholm public road from January 2018 for six months period. The service connected Kista metro station with major offices and university in Kista Science City. The focus of the deployment is the feasibility to use such service as a last mile transport option. The current service is operated between 7:00 and 18:00, with some exceptions for exceptional conditions. Until May 2018, the service has been used by 10000 passengers and logged 2000km kilometres. This project serves as the first step to understand the effects and challenges of the real AVs for shared services deployment from both technical and also to the societal, users and system perspectivest. This knowledge will important to design future deployment and pilots, to create a system that is sustainable and working from societal, environmental and economical perspective in Swedish context.
This particular presentation focuses on the users’ acceptance towards the AV service from two perspectives:
1. Acceptance and responses of the potential users and users of semi-autonomous bus service.
2. Reaction and adaptation of other road users to semi-autonomous bus running on public road.
Three-waves of panel survey among more than 500 users were deployed over the six-month period. The survey was designed to capture the longitudinal changes of attitudes, acceptance, and expectation of commuters and residents in appreciating and adopting (or use) this new public transport service. A series of psychological (attitudes, preferences and perceptions) questions, which are derived from Modified Theory of Reasoned Action, were deployed in February 2018, April 2018 and June 2018. Each survey wave includes about 30 minutes of questionnaire.

4) Short bio of presenter
Yusak O. Susilo is a Professor in Transport Analysis and Policy at the Royal Institute of Technology. His main research interest lies in the intersection between transport and urban planning, transport policy, decision making processes and behavioural interactions modelling. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University, Japan. He has been/is a principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator (co-I) in various international and national projects, including developed an open-source smartphone based travel diary collector app, MEILI, which has been deployed in 5 different cities at 3 different continents around the globe, and evaluating the impacts of autonomous buses deployment as a public transport service in a mixed public roads in Stockholm. He is currently serving as a board member of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and an associate editor of Transportation, European Transport Research Review and Journal of Transport and Health.

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.

8) Others: If you have some questions, please let me know them. My e-mail address is kato@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Ahmed I. Mosa, Professor of Transportation planning, The German University in Cairo & the British University in Cairo, Co- Founder and Managing Director of MASARAT consultancy

Abstract
Cairo is the 10th largest metropolis in the world with population reached 20 million and around 28 million trips/ year. Despite the high congestion in Egypt, the private car ownership rate actually remains among the lowest worldwide at approximately 50 cars per 1000 inhabitant. Even at the level of Greater Cairo Region (GCR), the most congested urban agglomerate, the rate has only recently reached approx. 100 cars/1000 inhabitants, yet it continues to rise. With regards to formal sector bus services, they have suffered an erosion of market share. Currently, around 2700 buses are working in Cairo; nearly 50% of the fleets are beyond residual life. The informal sector on the other hand (predominantly microbuses), on the other hand, appear to have achieved a very strong role in terms of road-based public transport services absorbing near 8.1 million journeys per day at present. Existing mobility systems in Cairo are close to breakdown. In 2015, the average time an urban dweller spends in traffic jams recorded 300 hours per year, three times more than the Figure in 2010. The cost of Congestion is estimated at 8 Billion $US/ Year, only in Greater Cairo Area. Delivering urban mobility will require more and more resources. Growth in urban travel needs is fast outpacing the evelopment of transport infrastructure, the need of the hour is to identify business strategies that enable sustainable integrated urban mobility. Therefore, a new economic landscape is needed to provide stakeholders with an array of opportunities to exploit, in the quest towards integrated mobility.

About a speaker
Dr. Mosa is the co-founder of MASARAT Consultancy Company that focuses on transportation, mobility, market research and investment platform. Dr. Mosa worked as the director of UITP MENA Center for Transport Excellence in Dubai where he oversees various research projects on various topics related to sustainable public transport. Mosa received a Master’s of Science and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Transportation Engineering from the University of Tokyo-Japan. As a Professor of transportation planning at the German University in Cairo, Nile University and the British university In Cairo, Mosa taught courses related to traffic engineering and transportation and participated in curriculum development and other special committees. Also before joining the UITP, he worked as the assistant to the Minister of Transportation in Egypt, and he is the founder of the Transportation Center
of Excellence at the Ministry of Transport in Egypt. Mosa established the center, supervising a team of researchers, and maintaining international and local relations with organizations and institutes such as JICA, World Bank and AFD. He was responsible for reviewing and updating the existing transportation models for Cairo (CREATS Transport model) and Egypt (MINITS) and developing transportation plans on the national, regional, international and cross-borders level including work on Egypt’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems and the master plans for Greater Cairo Region, national freeways road network and logistic centers. Dr. Mosa has over 16 years of experience that combine research/academic knowledge and practical experience. He won several awards, as well as authored and co- authored more than 40 papers in leading journals, conferences/workshops presentations and technical reports.

応用一般均衡分析と交通分析の統合に関する研究小委員会では，日欧国際共同セミナー　International Seminar on Integration of Spatial Computable General Equilibrium and Transport Modeling  を，下記日程・会場にて開催します．

日程：2019年3月14日（終日）

場所：ベルギー，ブリュッセル，神戸大学ブリュッセルオフィス

http://www.office.kobe-u.ac.jp/ipiep/kubec/index.html

参加者：CGE分析，交通モデル分析，ロジスティクスを専門とする研究者（主に欧州，日本から）

※参加者については募集および調整中ですが，現時点では，SCEG研究分野のパイオニアである Johannes Bröcker氏 (Kiel University)，物流モデリングをご専門とされChairman of WCTR Scientific Committee も務められている Lori Tavasszy (TU Delft) のご参加が決定しています．

本セミナーへの参加をご希望・ご検討される方は，石倉 (iskr@tmu.ac.jp) までお知らせください．

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