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Transportation Control Lab
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The lab uses game theory and mathematical methods to understand urban transportation and regional economies.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how cities and transportation work through mathematics.
The Transportation Control Lab studies how urban transportation and regional economies work, using mathematical methods and game theory.
The lab consists of the Akamatsu Lab and the Satsukawa Lab.
The Akamatsu Lab uses mathematical methods to study transportation demand management, explanations of how firms and populations cluster, and investment decisions on infrastructure.
The Satsukawa Lab studies the analysis of traffic flows that emerge from people's adaptive behavior, and dynamic control based on evolutionary game theory.
Key terms
- Transportation demand management
- An approach that aims to improve traffic flow by influencing how road users behave and how they use roads.
- Evolutionary game theory
- A branch of game theory that uses mathematical models to describe the process by which people gradually change their behavior based on experience.
- Mathematical finance
- A field that uses mathematics to handle investment and management decisions under an uncertain future.
ResearchResearch themes
The Transportation Control Lab studies mathematical methods for the planning and operation of urban and transportation systems. The Akamatsu Lab covers transportation, regional economics, and investment, while the Satsukawa Lab covers evolutionary analysis and control methods for urban traffic, and the institutional design of urban transportation.
*Illustrative imageManagement methods for congestion-free transportation
To realize comfortable transportation systems without congestion, the Akamatsu Lab develops new transportation demand management methods that make use of information and communication technology and game theory.
*Illustrative imageModels of how firms and populations cluster
The Akamatsu Lab uses mathematical models to explain the economic mechanisms by which spatial agglomeration patterns of firms and populations form through self-organization in cities and regions.
*Illustrative imageDecision-making on infrastructure investment
In the fields of investment science and mathematical finance, the Akamatsu Lab develops mathematical methods that optimize investment and management decisions while taking into account the risk that urban and infrastructure facilities are exposed to future uncertainty.
*Illustrative imageEvolutionary analysis and dynamic control of traffic flows
The Satsukawa Lab analyzes the spatiotemporal patterns of traffic flows that emerge through self-organization from people's adaptive behavior, and how those patterns evolve. It also develops dynamic traffic control strategies based on evolutionary game theory and optimization.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakashi Akamatsu
- Associate ProfessorKoki Satsukawa
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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: “World Class Traffic Jam )” joiseyshowaa from Freehold, NJ, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Management methods for congestion-free transportation: “Traffic congestion along Ontario Highway 401 in Pickering, Ontario, Canada” Robert Jack 啸风 Will / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Models of how firms and populations cluster: “Aerial view Mexico City Metro 03 2014 MEX 7849” Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Decision-making on infrastructure investment: “Tokyo Stock Exchange ( )” Guilhem Vellut / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Evolutionary analysis and dynamic control of traffic flows: “Intersection continuous flow” Leon7 (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Socioeconomic Systems Analysis Lab): “Tokyo Metro and JR East at Ochanomizu, Tokyo” Kabelleger / David Gubler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Quantitative Systems Analysis Lab): “Kazan city night aerial view southboubd ( )” Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cognitive Psychology and Informatics Lab): “Optical Illusion (67183712)” Dennis Sylvester Hurd / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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