{"title":"A Study on Preparedness for Flood Disaster and Promotion Measures","authors":"Y. Yamazaki, Yoshino Amao, Akiyoshi Takagi","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.85","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133655677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of Household Car Traveling Distances Using Hazard-based Duration Model","authors":"M. Kuwano, A. Fujiwara, Junyi Zhang","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128284721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sang-In Jun, Itsuki Yoshida, Ryusuke Takeuchi, T. Akiyama
{"title":"The Revealed Travel Behavior of the Elderly in an Urban Area and the Influential Individual Attributes","authors":"Sang-In Jun, Itsuki Yoshida, Ryusuke Takeuchi, T. Akiyama","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.755","url":null,"abstract":"With the increase of the limited mobility people in recent years, the necessity of STS also has been rising sharply. But there have been just few researches on the actual condition of travel behavior of a personal attribute of STS users. This study based on the survey result targeted for the elderly in Suginami-ku, Tokyo which is an urban area. This study clarified the actual condition of travel behavior that focused on a personal attribute and the factors influencing on that condition. As a result, this study was clarified that the elderly who are older than 85 years or who have been taken higher class of Long-term care. They have troubles in both travel behavior for their survival and for their leisure, and the means of transportation that such a group is able to use alone is insufficient.","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123254988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF COMBINING DIFFERENT SIGNAL PRIORITY RULES AND BUS OPERATION AT THE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION","authors":"K. Pradeep, F. Nakamura, T. Okamura","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.1033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.1033","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many metropolitan governments in the world have invested significant amount of budget in the extension of infrastructures and development of new public transportation system to overcome urban transportation problems specially traffic congestion resulting from ever-growing numbers of automobiles6). Among public transportation modes, the public buses have been contributing an important role to provide access to most urban centers serving as a main mode as well as feeder mode for passengers. Thus, the improvement of existing public bus system to provide efficient public bus service is a low capital cost measure for reducing automobile dependence of the metropolitan areas. But, buses share same road with other traffic and need to stop frequently for passenger boarding and alighting. The interaction of buses with other traffic reduces their speed. Furthermore, most of urban activities and developments are concentrated around intersection. The increased activities make it an ideal location for bus stop, thereby producing heavy pedestrian flow, illegal parking etc. Also, intersection is signalized for improving safety and effective movement of conflicting vehicular and pedestrian traffic flows through the intersection at the cost of delay to traffic. As a result, buses suffer significant amount of delay at signalized intersection. Consequences are reduced speed and highly varied travel time etc. Transportation experts are exploring different alternatives ranging from space priority; bus vehicle improvement etc. to the application of advanced Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technologies such as bus signal priority, advanced communication systems, automated scheduling and dispatch systems etc.9). Since Intersection delay is one of the main criteria for evaluating bus performance, Bus Signal Priority (hereafter BSP) have been considered broadly for improving bus service performance by reducing stopped delay of buses at signalized intersection. The form of BSP system in Japan, known as Public Transportation Priority System (hereafter PTPS), has been able to reduce bus delay by providing priority at traffic signals11). With invention of new technologies in the field of intelligent transport system, opportunities for new applications are still increasing for better performance. Moreover, improvements to bus services have been considered through number of bus operation controls such as fare payment system, infrastructure improvement such as bus lanes, queue jump lanes etc. Most BSP researches are independent with these bus operation controls. Rare studies have been made considering integrated approach of bus operation control, BSP and road igfrastructures management. Combination of those elements of transportation supposed to maximize BSP effectiveness. BSP system is usually evaluated in terms of travel time benefit to bus at the cost of travel time disbenefit to cross traffic. Different combination of the above mentioned elements will have differ","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132506040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES AGAINST GOVERNMENT","authors":"T. Hatori, Yoshihiro Komatsu, S. Fujii","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.37","url":null,"abstract":"This paper was concerned with “the vulgarity of the masses” that is regarded as a mental disposition of an individual, which might be of relevance to the issue of consensus building and public acceptance in an infrastructure planning process.Based upon Ortega's Political Philosophy, it was hypothesized that if people bacame vulgar, social consensus around public works would become difficult to be achieved, even if government's policy did not change at all. In order to test this hypothesis, we implemented a questionnaire survey. The obtained data statistically supported the hypothesis, and it was indicated that the masses might disturb consensus building for public works.","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127837464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of the Crime Space Based on Analyzing Criminogenic Factors for Crime Prevention","authors":"M. Kinashi, Toshiaki Kin","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.329","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to organize criminal information from the viewpoint of CPTED, and to demonstrate criminogenic characteristic through the analysis of relationship between snatch crime and urban structure at Hitachi-city, in lbaraki-prefecture. Followings are the main findings of this study. First, occurrence of snatch is influenced by household density, population density, financial institution, railway stations, and police stations. Second, the criminals value the existence of vacant land and side walk on the street. Finally, snatch types are classified into four categories that correlate to four different urban structures in using cluster analysis.","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129443529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walkable Communities and Walking Accessibility","authors":"Yusuke Kizawa, Kiyoshi Takami","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.25.395","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with issues on “Walkable Communities” based on walking accessibility in the early-developed area of Tama New Town, Tokyo. Firstly, we introduced an Integrated Walking Accessibility Index (IWAI) and examined the characteristics in its spatial distribution and its relationship with travel behavior of residents, showing that the high level of IWAI can stimulate walking. Secondly, we studied the effectiveness and necessity of measures to improve accessibility level, such as relocation of a neighborhood center and introduction of a new bus service, in an area where IWAI and other indices indicate lower accessibility.","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115138669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of performance-based contract against ex-post unobservability of housing quality","authors":"Mamoru Yoshida, H. Tatano","doi":"10.2208/JOURNALIP.24.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2208/JOURNALIP.24.273","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the principal's ex-post unobservablity of housing quality after the construction. If the principal expects that the agent takes an opportunistic action, she would not offer the contract in the first place. We analyzed the performance-based contract to solve this problem, and proved that with the framework of performance-based contract, the social optimal contract can be concluded between the principal and the agent. Furthermore, we clarified the effect of inspection accuracies on the efficiency and possibility of the contract agreement.","PeriodicalId":115282,"journal":{"name":"Infrastructure Planning Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117249511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}