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Urban Transportation Lab
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A lab that studies urban transportation, from how people move to how cities are planned.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the future of cities and transportation to support daily life
The Urban Transportation Lab studies transportation in cities and its planning.
It explores forms of cities and transportation that better support lives in which people live, work, and relax, with an emphasis on contributing to their realization.
The lab develops survey and analysis methods for understanding human activities and behavior more deeply, and works on value-creating approaches to transportation and community planning.
Its themes also include land use and transportation strategies and planning systems for sustainable cities, as well as the potential of new mobility.
Key terms
- Travel behavior
- The set of choices about when, where, and by what means people travel
- Mobility
- The movement of people and goods, as well as the means and services that support that movement
- Behavioral model
- A mathematical representation, built from data, of how people choose destinations and modes of transportation
NewsLab news
A PhD student won the Best Paper Award at APTE
A lab information session for fourth-year undergraduates was held in April
Associate Professor Takami won the Best Teaching Award from the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
A new paper from the lab was published in an academic journal
A master's student won the Best Paper Award at the Korean Society of Transportation
ResearchResearch themes
The field of urban transportation is changing rapidly, as new human-centered ways of thinking are called for and new technologies such as IoT and AI emerge. The lab studies a broad range of subjects, including people's activities and travel behavior and the future of cities and transportation, with attention to diverse spatial and temporal scales.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding people's travel behavior
The lab seeks to understand the mechanisms behind why people choose their current patterns of activity and travel. By estimating and validating behavioral models, it addresses topics ranging from residential location choice to evacuation behavior during disasters.
*Illustrative imageComprehensively evaluating transportation policies
The lab quantitatively evaluates the impacts of policies such as reallocating road space, introducing bicycle networks, and developing railways and roads, using a variety of indicators. These methods are also used to assess the impacts of new technologies such as automated driving.
*Illustrative imagePutting urban transport planning into practice
The lab considers how to realize a envisioned future. It conducts research that clarifies planning processes for building consensus, as well as the actual state of the institutions and policies needed to supply transportation services sustainably.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Urban Transportation Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, researchers, research students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorKiyoshi TakamiPublications ↗
- LecturerGiancarlos ParadyPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorLichen Luo
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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: “Drone shot of pedestrians crossing Showa-dori Avenue at night” Benlisquare / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Understanding people's travel behavior: “Pedestrian-only afternoon in Hiroo Hiroo Shopping Street” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Comprehensively evaluating transportation policies: “Hornby Separated Bike Lane” Paul Krueger / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Putting urban transport planning into practice: “Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit 02” Mattsjc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (International Urban and Regional Planning Lab): “Shanghai Urban Planning Museum city model 4” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Socio-Ecological Systems Lab): “Aeration tank activated sludge process STP Bengaluru India” Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Planning Lab): “JP-Tokyo-Area-Taken-From-Airplane” Kanchi1979 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Sustainability Lab (Fukushi Lab)): “Chicago-City-Hall-Green-Roof 01” Conservation Design Forum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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