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Asano Lab
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A lab that studies roads and pedestrian spaces where both people and vehicles can move smoothly, safely, and comfortably.
AboutAbout the lab
Safe, comfortable traffic for people and vehicles
The Asano Lab studies the geometric design of roads and pedestrian spaces, and how they should be controlled with signals and similar means, in order to make traffic of people and vehicles smooth, safe, and comfortable.
The lab works on traffic flow simulation that represents how pedestrians and cars mix, and on analyzing the characteristics of pedestrian flow.
Familiar road issues are also research subjects, such as the movement of vehicles picking up and dropping off passengers in front of stations, how pedestrian signals are displayed, and the evaluation of intersection safety.
Key terms
- Geometric design
- The shape of a road or plaza, including road width and curvature and the layout of lanes and crosswalks
- Traffic flow simulation
- A method of reproducing the movement of each vehicle and person on a computer to examine the flow and congestion of a road network as a whole
- Traffic flow
- The flow of vehicles and people moving along roads, expressed in terms of volume, speed, density, and so on
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how the geometric design and control conditions of roads and pedestrian spaces should be set to achieve smooth, safe, and comfortable traffic for people and vehicles. By surveying actual traffic, the lab analyzes and models the movements of vehicles and pedestrians, and applies the results to simulations and to the study of design methods.
*Illustrative imageReproducing traffic flow where pedestrians and vehicles mix
The lab is building a model that explains how pedestrians, who move more freely than cars, avoid one another, with the aim of constructing a traffic flow simulation that can even represent pedestrians and cars yielding to each other.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing the characteristics of pedestrian flow
Pedestrians can move in any direction regardless of lanes. With places where flows cross, such as station terminals, in mind, the lab seeks to understand the characteristics of pedestrian flow and to build a model that represents the flow as a whole.
*Illustrative imagePick-up and drop-off vehicle movements at station plazas
The lab builds models that quantitatively explain how the way people stop and drive when picking up or dropping off passengers changes with the shape of a station plaza and the purpose of the trip. It shows that the placement of obstacles and facilities may ease congestion even when demand is the same.
*Illustrative imagePedestrian signals suited to their users
In Japan, the length of the flashing green for pedestrians is set on the assumption that people will turn back, yet in practice few people actually do. Referring also to design examples from overseas, the lab is examining how to design pedestrian signals that are optimal for both pedestrians and drivers.
MembersFaculty
The Asano Lab's members consist of faculty members and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.
- ProfessorMiho Asano
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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: “Tokyo Shibuya Scramble Crossing” Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Reproducing traffic flow where pedestrians and vehicles mix: “Dean Street with mixed traffic, Albury NSW” Thennicke / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing the characteristics of pedestrian flow: “Concourse at York railway station - geograph.org.uk - 1667220” Phil Champion / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Pick-up and drop-off vehicle movements at station plazas: “Hakata Exit Station Square the taxi stand Hakata-eki-chūōgai Hakata-ku Fukuoka 20230801” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pedestrian signals suited to their users: “Moscow, pedestrian-cycling traffic signals Sept 2025 01” Retired electrician / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakamura (Hideki) Lab): “Traffic light at Jeffrey Road and Smoketree” aismallard / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab (NUTREND) (Toshiyuki Yamamoto)): “GDS-display” Cameramann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab (NUTREND) (Tomio Miwa)): “Autonomous vehicle trial - geograph.org.uk - 6881843” Hugh Venables / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Li Lab (Nagoya University)): “Aberdeen University Library interior atrium, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK” Temple of Mara / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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