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Muromachi Lab
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A lab that improves urban and transport environments by studying human behavior.
AboutAbout the lab
Improving cities and transport through the study of human behavior.
The Muromachi Lab conducts research built around three keywords: urban planning, transportation planning, and environmental planning.
While deepening our understanding of human behavior, the lab aims to contribute to improving urban and transport environments.
It addresses problems facing large cities in Japan and Asia, such as a declining birthrate and aging population and the decline of central urban areas.
The lab also evaluates the effects of transport on the environment, people's health, and disaster prevention, and uses the results to propose policies.
Key terms
- Urban planning
- Planning that shapes a city by deciding how land is used and where roads and facilities are located
- Travel behavior model
- A mathematical representation of what modes and routes people use to travel
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- A system that overlays data such as population and land use on a map for analysis
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research built around three keywords: urban planning, transportation planning, and environmental planning, while deepening its understanding of human behavior. It aims to contribute to improving urban and transport environments.
*Illustrative imageTransformation of the spatial structure of large cities
Japanese cities face serious problems, including a declining birthrate and aging population, the decline of central urban areas, and suburban sprawl. At the same time, new technologies that support urban management, such as geographic information systems, have emerged. The lab studies how the spatial structure of large cities in Japan and Asia is changing.
*Illustrative imageModeling and analysis of human behavior
Urban activity is made up of the behavior of many people, so understanding human behavior is a central theme of urban planning and transportation planning. In addition to refining traditional travel behavior models, the lab models various aspects of behavior, such as shopping destination choice, route choice, and the relationship between information and behavior.
*Illustrative imageEnvironment, health, disaster prevention, and transport space
Transport affects the environment in many ways, including greenhouse gas emissions. Walkable urban transport spaces contribute to people's health, and open spaces strengthen a city's disaster prevention functions. The lab evaluates these effects and proposes environmental policies to enhance them.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYasunori MuromachiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki NoguchiPublications ↗
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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: “Bicycles and pedestrians ( )” Keiichi Yasu / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Transformation of the spatial structure of large cities: “Near Kusunoki Ginten-gai pocket park (after arcade removal)” Peachmutilda / CC0 (cropped)
- Modeling and analysis of human behavior: “Shopping street - Flickr” All Cat / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Environment, health, disaster prevention, and transport space: “Seattle - Bell Street Pedestrian Bridge 01” Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (瀬尾研究室): “Lightrails, A4 motorway in Katowice, Poland, near the exit from Mikołowska Street, 2024” Krzysztof Popławski / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (高山研究室): “City Lights of Asia and Middle East 2016” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (真田研究室): “Terraced rice fields at Takenoshita 20220528-IMG 2609” くろふね / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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