Naojiro Aoshima

Bus Use Monitor Experiment by the Change of Attitudes for Bus Non-user

In a local city, by shortage of information, many of bus non-users do not recognize the bus as a means of transportation that can be used. So it is important that bus non-users get interested to bus traffic so that bus transit will be activated in the future. In this paper, “bus use monitor experiment” was carried out, and it measured changes of attitudes to bus use and the evaluations to bus use through this experiment. Then the effect of a monitor experiment on a consciousness level was examined.

The methodological study of the town planning process by adopting image concept in common with a group

This study consists of three main parts. The first part discusses influential factors for image construction process when she/he is constructing own image of “a favorable city”. The second part scrutinizes the restructuring process of image construction of an individual. In the third part, subconsciousness analysis methods (such as P-F test) generally used in psychological studies are applied into the field of urban planning in order to examine individual subconsciousness, and it discusses a process of forming consensus within a group. Finally, this study considers implications from above discussions, that aims to propose an analytical framework on human process of group consensus with individual subconsciousness, and its tasks for further development.

Relative Analysis between Mobility and Modal Diversification by Physically Handicapped People in Provicial Cities

In the provincial cities in our country the motorization rapidly develops, and the public transportation declines at acceleration like in the other. By the situation, the mobility of the physically handicapped people greatly lowers.First this study numerized the mobility of the physically handicapped people in the index of the outing index. The relation between the outing index and the modal utilization characteristics, and the relation between the outing index and the modal diversification were clarified in the second. Finally, the significance of the public transportation for the physically handicapped people in provincial cities was distinguished.

Incorporating a Disaggregate Model for Trip Generation, Trip Distribution and Mode Choice

A major innovation in the analysis of transportation demand since the mid-1970s is the development of disaggregate travel demand models based on discrete choice analysis. In the modelling of travel demand, disaggregate models allow us to introduce an individual’s attributes that influence travel behaviour, and to make more efficient use of the available individual data.

A Combined Disaggregate Model System for Travel Demand Forecasting

Abstract A combined disaggregate model system is developed for urban travel demand forecasting. By using the nested logit model, the first three steps of the four-step procedure for travel demand forecasting, that is, trip generation, trip distribution and travel mode choice, were modeled. For trip assignment of the forth step, the logit based stochastic user’s equilibrium model is applied.