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Kawasaki Lab
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A lab that uses models to understand and design logistics and supply chains.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding and designing logistics
The Kawasaki Lab studies logistics systems and supply chains.
Using methods from traffic engineering, transportation economics, and statistics, the lab treats logistics as a single system.
Looking ahead to a future shaped by technological innovation and changing regulations, its goal is to design logistics systems that are desirable for society and for logistics companies.
The lab also puts strong effort into management science research related to the management of logistics and shipping companies.
Key terms
- Supply chain
- The whole series of steps from procuring raw materials through manufacturing, storage, and delivery until products reach consumers
- Freight flow
- The movement of goods, showing how much freight is transported from where to where
- Probe data
- Records such as position and speed collected from moving vehicles. It provides clues about road traffic conditions
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on logistics systems, the lab aims to "design" what society should look like. It develops models that represent logistics and social systems, such as supply chain simulations and predictions of where logistics facilities will be located.
*Illustrative imageSupply chain simulation
In collaboration with industry and government, the lab builds simulation models that reproduce freight flows and inventory conditions in metropolitan areas. These models are used for policy analysis and for improving the efficiency of distribution companies.
*Illustrative imagePredicting the location of logistics facilities
The lab develops models that predict how the locations of logistics facilities such as warehouses will change in response to infrastructure investment and land-use policies.
*Illustrative imageEstimating freight volumes from data
The lab develops methods to estimate regional freight volumes from big data such as probe data and satellite data. The goal is to apply them in developing countries, where statistics are hard to obtain.
*Illustrative imageTechnological innovation and logistics systems
The lab develops models that measure the wide-ranging effects of technological innovations such as the automation of container terminals and ships, and truck platooning.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kawasaki Lab consist of faculty, visiting researchers, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- Associate ProfessorTomoya Kawasaki
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “OverviewAPMTerminalsMV2” Zandcee / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Supply chain simulation: “ISS045-E-92919 - View of Japan - Tokyo Rainbow Bridge - Odaiba - Uminomori - Shinagawa Fu Atawa - Higashi Yashio container port - Takanawa Gateway Station (cropped)” Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (NASA) / Public domain (cropped)
- Predicting the location of logistics facilities: “Tracy aerial” Dicklyon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Estimating freight volumes from data: “City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
- Technological innovation and logistics systems: “Container handling 6211 【 Pictures taken in Japan 】” Gazouya-japan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (柴崎研究室): “Aerial image of the Bremerhaven container terminal (view from the southeast)” Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (田中研究室): “Electricity pylons at sunset in Quebec City” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (和泉研究室): “Scramble from above, SHIBUYA SKY ( ) (cropped)” Sei F from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (松尾・岩澤研究室): “Deep-dream-white-noise-0036” MartinThoma / CC0 (cropped)
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