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Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab (NUTREND) (Toshiyuki Yamamoto)
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The lab studies how to build a convenient, environmentally friendly society, mainly from the perspective of transportation.
AboutAbout the lab
Pursuing a mobility society that brings happiness.
To make a convenient, comfortable society sustainable in terms of the environment and energy, the Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab conducts research mainly from the perspective of transportation.
The lab believes that future automobiles will not just run on roads but will be connected within information and energy networks, and will be expected to play a stronger role in society.
Example research topics include automated driving, public transportation, mobility services such as car sharing, analysis of human travel behavior, safety and disaster prevention, and the use of big data.
Prof. Yamamoto belongs to the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability and Prof. Miwa belongs to the Institute of Innovation for Future Society, but the two operate as a single, integrated research unit.
Key terms
- Mobility
- The movement of people and goods, as well as the vehicles and transportation services that support it
- Car sharing
- A system in which members share cars and borrow one whenever they need to use it
- Big data
- Large volumes of records collected every day, such as data from mobile phone base stations and usage records of transit IC cards
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Yuanfang Zhu received the Excellent Presentation Award at the Research Presentation Meeting of the Traffic Science Research Association
A graduate and lab members received the Best Paper Award at the EASTS International Conference
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how to make a society where people can live conveniently and comfortably sustainable in terms of the environment and energy, mainly from the perspective of transportation. Its themes include future mobility, public transportation, evaluation of mobility services, travel behavior analysis, safety and disaster prevention, and the use of big data.
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The members of the Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab are faculty members, researchers, technical assistants, technical staff, administrative staff, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, special research students, and Japanese language trainees.As of 2026
- ProfessorToshiyuki Yamamoto
- ProfessorTomio Miwa
- Project ProfessorTakayuki Morikawa
- Project ProfessorRyo Kanamori
- Project Associate ProfessorHitomi Sato
- Project Associate ProfessorMeilan Jiang
- Assistant ProfessorYuanfang Zhu
- Assistant ProfessorHiroe Ando
- Project Assistant ProfessorGen Hayauchi
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