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Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab (NUTREND) (Tomio Miwa)
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The lab studies, through the lens of transportation, how to build a society that is both convenient and environmentally friendly.
AboutAbout the lab
In pursuit of a mobility society that brings happiness
The Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab conducts research mainly from the perspective of transportation, aiming to make a society where people can live conveniently and comfortably sustainable in terms of the environment and energy.
The lab believes that future automobiles will not simply run on roads but will be connected within information and energy networks, and will be required to play a stronger social role.
Examples of research topics include autonomous driving, public transportation, mobility services such as car sharing, analysis of people's 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 lab is run as a single 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 want to use it
- Big data
- Large and diverse sets of data. In transportation, records such as those from mobile phone base stations and transit IC cards are used
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Yuanfang Zhu received the Excellent Presentation Award at the research presentation meeting of the Traffic Science Research Association
A graduate of the lab 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, researchers, technical assistants, technicians, 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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