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Urban and Regional Planning Lab
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The lab studies transportation and urban form to create attractive, vibrant cities.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating urban appeal and vitality
The Urban and Regional Planning Lab studies transportation engineering, urban planning, and transportation planning, making it a so-called "planning-oriented" lab.
Cities are places to live and work, but they face many problems involving the environment, transportation, landscape, and land use.
The lab builds theoretical frameworks to solve these problems and conducts empirical research that applies the theories in real cities.
It aims to observe and analyze cities and to put the results to use in real society.
Key terms
- Empirical research
- Research that tests whether a theory or idea is correct using data and trials in real cities
- LRT
- Light rail transit: a modernized streetcar that is easy to board and alight from and can run fast
- Simulation
- Reproducing a phenomenon on a computer and examining the results when conditions are changed
NewsLab news
A master's student received the YUPN Best Paper Presentation Award at ICAPPS2026
A doctoral student received the YUPN Best Paper Presentation Award at ICAPPS2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab targets road and public transport development, land-use policy, and transportation management, aiming to enhance urban vitality and appeal and to solve environmental and transportation problems. It also covers rail, bus, and LRT policy, tourism and urban vitality, and the evaluation of automated driving.
*Illustrative imageExploring the relationship between urban form and transportation through computation
The lab uses simulation with models that represent cities and transportation numerically to study how the convenience of roads and railways affects urban form. When a policy changes transportation costs, the locations of housing and shops change, and so does the form of the city.
*Illustrative imageComparing train frequency and population change across countries
In regional cities, railways often exist but run infrequently and are underused. Using real data from Germany and other countries, the lab analyzes how differences in rail convenience lead to differences in population change around stations.
*Illustrative imageField experiments to make public transport more convenient
Making public transport more convenient is said to make cities more compact and reduce environmental impact. The lab studies changes in travel behavior and urban form through field experiments such as a trial of a direct bus connecting Kyoto Station with a car-dependent district in southern Kyoto City.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban and Regional Planning Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, part-time researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNobuhiro Uno
- Associate ProfessorRyoji Matsunaka
- Assistant ProfessorTomoki Nishigaki
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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: “Tramway de Dijon DSC 0244” Pline / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Exploring the relationship between urban form and transportation through computation: “Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya - Nagoya 200 ka 2419” JKT-c / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Comparing train frequency and population change across countries: “Commuters Platform 9 Roma Street Railway Station Brisbane P1400747” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Field experiments to make public transport more convenient: “Malta Public Transport BUS 635” Kk70088 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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