Toward the Society of No Mobility Divide - Social Implementation Projects of Smart Local Mobility

Abstract

Nagoya University has been conducting large scale research projects on the mobility without using private cars since 2013.

Those projects are strongly requested to socially implement the proposed system. This presentation introduces the three major projects that aim to build the society of no mobility divide.

Biography

Takayuki Morikawa received B.E. and M.E. from Kyoto University in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He received M.S. and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1987 and 1989, respectively. In 1983, he started to work as research associate at Kyoto University and then became an associate professor and professor at Nagoya University in 1991 and 2000. From 1996 to 1997, he worked as a visiting associate professor at MIT. He served as the research leader of Nagoya University Center of Innovation Project (COI) and currently is the project leader of Nagoya University COI-NEXT My-mobility Cocreation Center and of Nagoya University Consortium of SIP/SMIP. His research areas are travel behavior analysis, transportation policies, and advanced mobility systems.