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Transportation, Urban and Land Studies Lab (BinN / Urban Life Studies and Network Behavior Research Group)
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The lab uses mathematical models to understand human behavior and considers how to plan and design cities and transportation.
AboutAbout the lab
Building cities and transportation from behavioral observation and mathematics
The Transportation, Urban and Land Studies Lab studies cities and transportation in fields such as transportation planning, urban planning, urban formation history, and urban design.
The lab conducts fundamental research based on behavioral observation, mathematical methods, and analysis of historical records, targeting cities at various scales, such as streets and plazas, and stations and their surrounding towns.
It aims to connect the results to the planning and design of actual urban spaces and to the implementation of traffic control systems and urban simulation.
The lab places importance on its start-up lab seminar, where newly joined students learn programming and basic transportation theory, and on its lab seminar for reading papers together in turn.
Key terms
- Urban formation history
- A field that examines how cities have been shaped by topography and history
- Mathematical model
- A representation of a phenomenon in mathematical equations, which makes analysis and prediction possible through calculation
- Shared mobility service
- A service in which many people jointly use vehicles such as cars and bicycles
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies cities and transportation, focusing on cities at various scales, including streets and plazas, stations and their surrounding towns, and wide-area cultural spheres and their highways (kaido). Building on fundamental research using mathematical methods, it aims to implement urban space planning and design, traffic control systems, shared mobility services, and simulation.
*Illustrative imageUrban Life Studies: Modeling Human Behavior
The lab represents cities as networks, describes people's movement and activities with mathematical models, and analyzes them using behavioral data. Studies include modeling how people search for destinations and choose departure times.
*Illustrative imageMultiscale Flow Simulation
This research reproduces people's lives and behavior on a computer, based on vast amounts of behavioral data and information on urban activities. The lab analyzes how people move around within cities, and how pedestrians and vehicles interact, at various scales.
*Illustrative imageDesign and Implementation of Regional Public Transportation
The lab reformulates demand forecasting methods as optimization problems, aiming to implement them as shared mobility services and new forms of public transportation. Studies include vehicle dispatch planning and reservation systems for public transportation.
*Illustrative imageTotal Design for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
The lab focuses on evacuation behavior during disasters, clarifies how evacuation works, and connects the findings to the design of disaster prevention and mitigation. Studies include how people choose evacuation destinations and how information spreads during river basin evacuation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Transportation, Urban and Land Studies Lab consist of faculty, researchers, specialist academic staff, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorEiji HatoPublications ↗
- ProfessorTakamasa IryoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYuki OyamaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHajime WatanabePublications ↗
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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: “X-shaped pedestrian Sakura bridge over Sumida river, linking Taitō and Sumida wards, view from Tokyo Skytree, Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban Life Studies: Modeling Human Behavior: “Hanazonomachi - panoramio” DVMG / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Multiscale Flow Simulation: “Aerial view of Tokyo at night; 2017 (1)” MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Design and Implementation of Regional Public Transportation: “Rural bus stop and timetable, Fretherne - geograph.org.uk - 4227039” Jaggery / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Total Design for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation: “Tsunami refuge tower at Shonan beach” Oos / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (関本研究室): “ISS-62 Tokyo, Japan at night” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (地域/情報研究室): “Landsat View, Tokyo, Japan - Flickr - NASA Goddard Photo and Video” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (河川/流域環境研究室 澤田グループ): “Typhoon In-Fa (MODIS )” MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (次世代インフラシステム研究室(福田研究室)): “Lavaux highway at night” Deralpinbergsteiger / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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