Takayuki Ueda

Impacts of Transport Infrastructure Policies in Population-Declining Metropolitan Area

In The Tokyo metropolitan area, population growth and economic growth have caused serious urban problems like sprawl at urban fringe, heavy congestion not only in road network but also in railway network, environmental emission and so on. Although there still now remain the difficult problems for us to tackle with, the transport infrastructure policies until today have succeeded in sustaining the high business productivity with high spatial agglomeration and quality of life in the population-growing trend.