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Transport and Regional Planning Lab
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A lab that plans transport systems and designs urban and transport spaces.
AboutAbout the lab
Transport planning and the design of urban and transport spaces
The Transport and Regional Planning Lab plans transport systems that respond to future social needs, and designs urban and transport spaces that enhance regional vitality, safety, and security.
Its research includes creating visions and plans for cities and transport at the scale of cities and the nation, and investigating drivers' behavior through indoor experiments.
According to the lab's website, the lab originated as a chair in the Department of Construction Engineering, and came to cover civil engineering planning and urban and regional planning in addition to traffic engineering.
Key terms
- Shrinking city
- An urban strategy also known as the compact city. It is two sides of the same coin with the creative city strategy.
- Usability
- A higher-level ergonomic domain that goes beyond accessibility.
- Transmodality
- An approach that strengthens transport node functions to achieve seamless coordination between transport modes and to create interaction and ease of moving around.
- Driving simulator
- A device that reproduces road conditions while driving using multiple screens and a mock driver's seat, allowing drivers' behavior to be studied indoors.
ResearchResearch themes
The Transport and Regional Planning Lab plans transport systems that respond to future social needs, and designs urban and transport spaces that enhance regional vitality, safety, and security. Professor Doi's research covers the creation of visions and plans and spatial design at the city and national level, while Associate Professor Iida's research investigates driver behavior using a driving simulator.
*Illustrative imageUrban and Transport Design
With population decline, a super-aging society, and the urgent need to prepare for massive disasters, urban and transport design needs a change of direction. The lab studies the creation of visions and plans and spatial design at the scale of cities, mega-regions, and the nation.
*Illustrative imageShrinking Cities, Creative Cities, and Mobility
The shrinking city strategy (compact city) and the creative city strategy are two sides of the same coin, and both require reconfiguring the connections among people, goods, money, information, knowledge, and time. The key to this is mobility, which represents freedom of movement and the ability to use resources.
*Illustrative imageImproving Social Usability
The aim is to enhance social usability and raise today's transport systems to a level that is physically "easy to use" and psychologically "appealing to use." The lab studies the planning, design, and operation of roads, railways, airport and port facilities, transport node spaces, and public facilities.
*Illustrative imageNext-Generation Cities and Transport
Envisioning cities and transport equipped with transmodality (seamless coordination between modes), needs-responsive mobility (transport services that adapt to circumstances), and co-mobility (shared transport services), the lab attempts to create new concepts and put them into practice.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Transport and Regional Planning Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenji Doi
- Associate ProfessorKatsuhiro Iida
- Associate ProfessorKento Yoh
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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: “Ds-low-100” FWeidner / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban and Transport Design: “Urban design In IRAN-Qom City-2016 & 2017-Canon Photos-Mostafa Meraji 07” Mostafameraji / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Shrinking Cities, Creative Cities, and Mobility: “Urban Regeneration, Stirling Forthside - geograph.org.uk - 2911907” David Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Improving Social Usability: “Bus, public transport in Vlora (PV496)” Zalasem1 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Next-Generation Cities and Transport: “Woman using Mobility-as-a-Service” Checking_Her_Smartphone_(Unsplash).jpg: Daria Nepriakhina epicantus derivative work: Velotopist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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