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Transportation (Public Transit) Design Lab
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The lab studies public transit design from planning through to actual use.
AboutAbout the lab
Public transit design that moves society.
Assistant Professor Sakotsubo's lab studies how public transit design is planned and how it is evaluated once it is in use.
The lab examines the relationship between the design process and design philosophy at the planning stage and design evaluation based on actual usage after operation begins, and analyzes what design that moves society looks like.
Assistant Professor Sakotsubo draws on experience in design practice at a design firm, where he worked on public transit vehicles, consumer devices, and industrial machinery.
The lab also puts effort into training people who can put into practice in society the School's educational and research philosophy of the “humanization of technology.”
Key terms
- Design process
- The way of proceeding from planning a design to giving it form. This lab examines the process at the planning stage of public transit
- Public-use objects
- Things that many people use in common. In this research, railcars, which require a high degree of publicness, are treated as public-use objects
- NGO
- A private nonprofit organization. In this research, NGOs are the subjects of surveys to identify needs for public-use objects
ResearchResearch themes
The lab clarifies how the design of public transit is evaluated, from the planning stage to actual use, and explores what kind of design moves society. It also conducts research on the suburban railways of Mumbai, India.
*Illustrative imagePublic Transit Design and Its Evaluation
The lab examines the relationship between the design process and design philosophy used when public transit is planned and design evaluation based on how it is actually used after operation begins. It analyzes what design that moves society looks like.
*Illustrative imageRailcar Design for the Mumbai Suburban Railway
Assistant Professor Sakotsubo and colleagues proposed a railcar design for the Mumbai suburban railway in India as a hypothetical project. They defined a concept word for the exterior and one for the interior, and proposed the form, graphics, and interior layout.
*Illustrative imageNeeds Surveys for Public-Use Objects Overseas
Focusing on the Mumbai metropolitan area, the lab is developing a way to identify, through surveys of NGOs, the needs that must be addressed in designing public-use objects such as railcars. It also aims to clarify the gap between these needs and the needs recognized by those who commission the design.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorTomohiro Sakotsubo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Rio light rail arriving at Santos Dumont station” Luke Starkenburg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Public Transit Design and Its Evaluation: “The Bus Rapid transit Lane in London, Ontario” Gogerr / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Railcar Design for the Mumbai Suburban Railway: “Mumbai AC local” Tiven2240 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Needs Surveys for Public-Use Objects Overseas: “Mumbai Central platform scene, 2009” Bahnfrend / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Transportation (Public Transport) Design Lab): “Melbourne (AU), City Circle Tram” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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