Selected Publications from Papers Presented at TRB Annual Meetings

Last updated on January 18, 2016

• Takuma CHO, Hironori KATO, and Jetpan WETWITOO
  "How much has high-speed rail contributed to economic productivity in Japan?"
  Transportation Research Board 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2016. [PDF]
• Ryosuke ABE and Hironori KATO
  "Time-series analysis of urban rail supply in Tokyo, Japan, from 1920 to 2010"
  Transportation Research Board 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2016. [PDF]
• Takashi USAMI, Hironori KATO, and Ryuichi SHIBASAKI
  "Impacts of introducing the Northern Sea Route on macro economy and on diversification of liquefied natural gas import sources in Japan"
  Transportation Research Board 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2016. [PDF]
• Yuki TAKADA, Ryosuke ABE, and Hironori KATO
  "Relationship between built environment and resident gasoline consumption in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area: Residential self-selection and the Structural Equation Modeling approach"
  Transportation Research Board 2015 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2015. [PDF]
• Ryosuke ABE and Hironori KATO
  "What are the critical factors for high transit patronage in Tokyo?: Historical analysis of travel demand from 1920 to 2010"
  Transportation Research Board 2015 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2015. [PDF]
• Satoshi TANABE, Ryuichi SHIBASAKI, and Hironori KATO
  "International freight transportation demand under improved border-crossing service in Central Asia"
  Transportation Research Board 2015 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2015. [PDF]
• Momoko KOJIMA, Takayoshi FUTOSE, Le Binh PHAN, and Hironori KATO
  Urban transportation in Yangon: Evidence from large-scale surveys"
  Transportation Research Board 2015 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2015. [PDF]
• Ryosuke ABE and Hironori KATO
  "The impact of built environment on gasoline consumption in a developing megacity: Evidence from the Jakarta Metropolitan Area"
  Transportation Research Board 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2014. [PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Masayoshi TANISHITA, and Ryosuke ABE
  "A meta-analysis of the value of travel time savings incorporating GDP per capita: Evidence from Japanese passenger travels"
  Transportation Research Board 2013 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2013.　[PDF]
• Xiaoyi WANG, Hironori KATO, and Ryuichi SHIBASAKI
  "Risk perception and communication at maritime transportation to and from Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster"
  Transportation Research Board 2013 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2013. [PDF]
• Kenta NAKAMURA, Yukihiro OGAWA, Hironori KATO, and Ryuichi SHIBASAKI
  "Impacts of maritime transportation risk on maritime traffic flows and regional economies: The case study at the Straits of Malacca and Singapore"
  Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2012. [PDF]
• Kohei ASAO, Takashi MIYAMOTO, Hironori KATO, and Diaz, C.E.D.
  "Payment-based annual revenue guarantee versus period-extension-based cumulative revenue guarantee in build-operation-transfer projects"
  Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2012. [PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Akihiro INAGI, Takahiro IGO
  "Awareness and potential choices of carsharing: Comparative analysis of data from four Japanese cities"
  Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2012. [PDF]
  
• Hironori KATO, Satoshi SUZUKI, Shinsuke KAYAMA, Takeshi KAWANOBE, Jun KUSUMOTO
  "Stakeholder analysis of the urban carsharing market in Tokyo, Japan"
  Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2012. [PDF]
  
• Hironori KATO, Ayanori SAKASHITA, Takayoshi TSUCHIYA, Takanori ODA, and Masayoshi TANISHITA
  "Estimation of road user's value of travel time savings using large-scale household survey data from Japan"
  Transportation Research Board 2011 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), Janaury 2011. [PDF]
  
• Takafumi IWATA, Hironori KATO, and Ryuichi SHIBASAKI
  "Economic impact of international freight transportation projects in landlocked countries: The case of Lao PDR"
  Transportation Research Board 2011 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), Janaury 2011. [PDF]
  
• Hironori KATO, Crispin Emmanuel D. DIAZ and Marie ONGA
  "The impact of foreign aid on local institutional systems: Case study of institutional spillover effect on the Batangas Port Development Project in the Philippines"
  Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2010. [PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Nozomi SAITO, Akihiro INAGI and and U. Aung Myint
  "Regulatory framework and operational system of urban bus transportation in Yangon, Myanmar"
  Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2010. [PDF]
• Hironori KATO and Keiichi ONODA
  "An investigation of whether the value of travel time increases as travel time is longer: A case study of modal choice of inter-urban travelers in Japan"
  Transportation Research Board 2009 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2009.[PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Hidetaka KITAMURA, Yuichi MURAKAMI and Hideaki SHIROYAMA
  "Acceptability of urban road pricing from the perspective of freight transportation: A case study of Tokyo"
  Transportation Research Board 2009 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2009.[PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Kay W. AXHAUSEN and Makoto IMAI
  "Value of Travel Time Savings of Urban Private Travel: Comparison of Tokyo and Karlsruhe"
  Transportation Research Board 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2008.[PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Hideaki SHIROYAMA and Takeshi FUKAYAMA
  "Process management in public transit planning: A case study of the Light Rail Transit introduction project in Toyama, Japan"
  Transportation Research Board 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2008. [PDF]
• Hironori KATO and Manabu MATSUMOTO
  "Intra-household Interaction Analysis among a Husband, a Wife, and a Child using the Joint Time Allocation Model"
  Transportation Research Board 2007 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2007.[PDF]
• Hironori KATO, Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI, Shintaro TERABE and Hitoshi IEDA
  "Consumer’s perception of fare when using farecard in urban railway route choice"
  Transportation Research Board 2003 Annual Meeting, Washington D. C. (U. S.), January 2003.[PDF]