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Sasaki Lab
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The lab studies urban transportation and everyday life through data and models.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving urban problems with data.
The Sasaki Lab is an urban planning lab at Waseda University that deals with urban issues in general.
Facing issues such as traffic congestion, land use, and disaster prevention, the lab analyzes a wide variety of data and makes proposals toward a better environment.
The lab models how people behave under various conditions and predicts the resulting effects.
With the cooperation of many companies, organizations, and local governments, the lab also conducts community-rooted research in various places across Japan.
Key terms
- Person trip survey
- A survey that broadly collects information on when, from where to where, for what purpose, and by what means people traveled
- Route search
- Selecting a path from the starting point to the destination according to given conditions
- Driver's license surrender
- Voluntarily giving up one's driver's license. It has become a topic as a choice made in older age
NewsLab news
Paper by Prof. Sasaki and colleagues published in the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Paper by Prof. Sasaki and colleagues published in Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Stud…
Prof. Sasaki received the "Meritorious Service Award" (Fuefuki City)
Paper by Prof. Sasaki and colleagues published in the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Special Issue (Infrastructure Planning)
Prof. Sasaki and students received the Poster Award (Representative Director's Award) at the Japan Conference on Mobility Management
ResearchResearch themes
To address the various problems that cities face, such as traffic congestion, land use, and disaster prevention, the lab analyzes a wide variety of data. By modeling how people behave and predicting the effects of policy measures, it leads to proposals for a better environment.
*Illustrative imageRoute Search and Transportation Models
Using extensive data such as person trip surveys and GPS logs, the lab builds models that consider how various factors affect people's movement. These models cover route search, choice of transportation mode, and stays at destinations.
*Illustrative imageTraffic Accidents and Elderly-Friendly Environments
The lab analyzes even the latent factors of traffic accidents that are not directly visible, and connects this to accident prevention measures and policy. Because accidents involving elderly people have become a social problem, it also studies driver's license surrender and the introduction of alternative means of transportation.
*Illustrative imageDisaster-Resilient Cities
To keep disaster damage to a minimum, the lab analyzes the flow of people after a disaster and runs traffic simulations. The results are used for future countermeasures.
*Illustrative imageLand Use
Land use suited to regional characteristics and urban development based on rules are both necessary. The lab visualizes urban conditions from various data and studies evaluation methods for optimizing cities.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Sasaki Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKuniaki Sasaki
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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: “Aerial view of Autobahnkreuz Köln-Nord” El Grafo / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Route Search and Transportation Models: “Physarum polycephalum 25573048” Garrett Taylor / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Traffic Accidents and Elderly-Friendly Environments: “The underwater surface structures of an iceberg in Svalbard” Andreas Weith / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Disaster-Resilient Cities: “A starling murmuration at Eyemouth - geograph.org.uk - 6378649” Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Land Use: “Monteregie farmland aerial 1 2025” Hayden Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Sato Lab): “Side View Of Concrete Bridge” Collins Musonda / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sakakibara Lab): “S Koirala Hospital Constructed Wetland ( )” SuSanA Secretariat / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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